Could someone please tell me where time came from, or which generation it was created in? I thought it was the romans with their roman numerals, but i may be wrong... some things i do know are that we started off telling the time by using the sun on sundials, but thats about it...
Somebody please help!
2006-10-30 09:02:10 · 4 answers · asked by stjimmy664 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Time still started with the Big Bang.
2006-10-30 09:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by darwin_kepler_edison 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well - time itself is a fundamental structure of the universe. The answer to where time came from is the same as the answer to where the universe came from or where space came from.
However - if you're talking about the history of the MEASUREMENT of time, I believe you have to go back to the Sumerian civilization (circa 2000 B.C.). We still use the system they created to measure time (the Sumerian Sexagesimal System) based on the number 60 - 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour - and we believe they had a calendar with a 360 (60 * 6) days. The number 12 was also important to the Sumerians - 12 hours of day, 12 hours of night, 12 months in a year.
(P.S. God has nothing to do with this - this is a scientific conversation - time is a natural concept, not a super-natural concept).
2006-10-30 17:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by captain2man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally, God created the length of day and night. But the Romans and Native Americans were the first to put it into numbers. I believe the Romans were the first ones to come up with the sun-dial. The sun-dial showed the shadow of the sun in a perfect circle. They put the circle into sections and reverted that to time. Eventually they put those into days, months, and years. They were the ones who made the first calender by calculating days with a sun-dial. The Native Americans had trained their people to just look at the sun and know what time it was. I hope I answered your question.
2006-10-30 17:07:09 · answer #3 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know much about a lot of this, but I do know that when the cross-country railroad system started, the engineers had to come up with a workable way of telling what time it was and where. So that is when we were given the times zones we have today. Does that help? Have a nice day.
2006-10-30 17:54:26 · answer #4 · answered by *Balanced*Sweetheart*Always* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋