Does the concept of time occur in space?

Question

Time on earth is judged in relation to the earth and the sun. If you travel through space, how do you judge time?

Answer 1

We don't judge time by celestrial events, we merely use them as a reference. Before the atomic clock we had no more reliable way to validate our time readings than the heavens. Now that we have atomic clocks we have an even more accurate method of telling time.

In space we could still use the heavens to tell time. All we need are two objects and a known constant orbit. More likely we could use the clocks inside of each of us. The same ones that tell us how fast we will age can also be used to tell us what time it is in places without any other time reference.

What time means to a human would change however. Our 24 hour day is based more on the ancient need for sunlight to see what we are doing and the danger the dark presented to us. First from preditors then from ourselves. Studies of people isolated from time telling devices and other schedules have show people tend to adopt 36 hour days instead of 24. They work until tired then sleep when they are tired. You see this with many self employed in fields like writing, programming and other activities that do not require scheduled human interaction on a dailly basis to accomplish.

Answer 2

Time isn't governed, or created, by the moon and sun. It's conveniently measured by using them however. Time is a real quantity that is a consequence of thermodynamics, and therefore exists everywhere. Some research suggests it may be pass faster or slower in different space-environments, but on the whole time appears to be mathematically smooth.

To judge time in space, you have to choose a convenient time scale and just use it...like your watch and an earth- calender.

Answer 3

The concept of time in space in not strongly considered. Space does not have time zones like the Earth, mainly in part because the shape of the universe is undefined. Many think it is flat, spherical, or saddle-like. Excluding flatness, the other two shapes are three-dimensional. We do not know how to tell time in space but we know it is there; Many people add time in as an attribute, making space four-dimensional, which we refer to as "space time."

Answer 4

Time is a relativistic phenomenon. So... you can measure time by the watch you have on (which gives you your local time), or by your "speed" at passing objects (the turning of the Earth, or the position oif the Sun). But even a concept such as "speed" is relativistic as well.
Einstein's famous thought experiment on this topic was simply:"If I am travelling at the speed of light, what would I see in my rearview mirror?"

Answer 5

Time is the passage of events. It is a concept based on observation of the world around us. I would assume that terrestrial time could be adapted to suit those who would travel into deep space. After all, time to them would need to correspond to time where they came from for continuity sake.

Answer 6

in space the time obviously ocur but the nature of time has been changed there. eg.
some places have fast time as there time passes fastly then normal

some places have time pass slowly then normal.


for exemple in Barmuda triangle time , radar , north south poles does not work and the man goed to (i don`t know)

Answer 7

Time and space are intertwined in a single continuum.

Answer 8

time is determined by a heavenly body's rotations, revolutions, lunar activety if someone is recording it, but flat out space is nothingness, unless your floating around with a watch!

Answer 9

Great question! I wish I could help you answer it!!

Answer 10

in light years... or you could use a watch