are we loosing time?

Question

are we infact nt living a 24 hour day bt either more or less? does this mean in teory we are loosing time, are ancestors used time 2 roughly gauge the time of day and are presnce in the year but, in modern times the difference between bein a minutelate can change are day completely, so are we infact owed time?

Answer 1

Time is but an illusion of the mind. Every one has an individual experience of the moment they are living in. For example have you ever heard of the saying; time flies when you're having fun? Have you ever been stuck at work and the day just seemed to drag on ... and on... and on? Well there it is my friend time is all in your head. So the answer to your question lies in your own being my friend. You are the sole owner of time.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean. A day is always the time from one sunset to the next (or sunrise to the next sunrise). A long time ago, the average for over a whole year, the day was less than 24 hours. About 620 million years ago, the day was 21 hours 54 minutes. About the year 1835, it was exactly 24 hours. Now it is about 24 hours plus about 2 milliseconds.

By "hour", I mean a time of 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds, as we measure seconds today. Hundreds of years ago, people divided the day into 24 parts and called those parts "hours" -- but those were not the same as the hours we use now.

During a year, the length of a day varies by + or - 30 seconds.

What do you by "are we in fact owed time"? Who would owe it to us? Did anybody ever promise you any time?

Answer 3

We are not loosing time because time is created by human beings. Time, as most percive it, is what we see on our watch, but infact it is only a mental creation used as a gauge to go about our daily lives. Time exists because there are intelligent beings who see the conversion of order into dissorder, which occurs in the fourth dimension. We cannot owe or loose any time because it doesnt exist.

Answer 4

Leap year is to gain the extra day back. However, if you mean day by the amount of time in a 24-hour period we get sunlight, then yes, we are losing time. During winter and spring, the days get longer until the summer solstice, which is the longest day of the year. Then the days start to shorten again, until the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year.

Answer 5

I am no scientist as yourself. I don't think time owes anything, I belive that we live enough time. about 3 years ago I changed my routine I worked against time, my sleeping hours where from 4am to 7pm... daily for over 4 months... my doctor said I was allucinating and that that wasnt time fighting... but hell I know I lived a lot in those 4 months. so time is just time, we live what we want to live.

Answer 6

Interestingly human physiology follows a 25hr clock. so technically compressing into a 24 hr time slot we are knocking ourselves eachtime into a set state of being that is *technically* unnatural.

Answer 7

Aside from agreeing with everyone who called you an idiot I would also like to say that time is relative. For example, while I was listening to my new cd earlier, over an hour went by in what seemed like a few minutes. Reading your question however, seemed to go on forever.

Answer 8

time is a human concept, it is a rather inaccurate measure of the solar and lunar cycles, that was divided by 60 by the Babylonians. ever since we have been trying to make their model fit the real thing.

Answer 9

That's what leap years are for. You get the extra time back every 4 years.

Answer 10

I think that time is elastic, can be very short time which lasts forever and vice versa. To me time does not exist except for us who are trying to count it at first with drops of water....
That's what I think.