Does time exist in places other than earth?

Question

Many cultures depend on time to keep track of their daily routines, right? But what about places that don't? Like in outer space. Time is based on the earths rotations around the sun, right?

How would you keep time out there with nothing to base time on? Would there be time zones (likethe ones on earth) in space, too?

And isn't the 4th dimention time? Do you think time even existst at all?

What I'm trying to ask is: How does time apply to places other than on earth?

Answer 1

Any periodic phenomenon can be used as a base for measuring time. In fact, the vibrations of a particular type of light are now used as the definition of a second, so time is definitely not based on the earth's rotation. Now, the time zones are simply our convention to make sure that the local measurement of time corresponds to where the sun is in the sky, but it is very common now to use universal time (essentially Greenwich Mean Time) for anything space based, or military.

So, yes, time does apply to other places than just on earth.

Answer 2

Time applies to everything, except in the beginning when there was no time. That period is the pre-big bang before God created the universe. After all, the big bang didn't just happen on it's own, something caused it.

It is actually wrong to associate time with earth's rotation around the sun. More generally, time is associated with an objects velocity in relation to light. See the link on space time continuum. Scientists have theorize that traveling faster than the speed of light would allow someone to go back in time. While traveling close or at the speed of light may slow or stop aging. None of this has been proven however.

Out in space, it is possible to keep track of time in several ways. This takes a bit of astronomy knowledge. Our universe is currently expanding, which means planets, stars, solar systems and everything is actually still in motion today and they are moving further away from the point where the big bang started the universe. We can determine time by calculating how far they've moved away. This is how we're able to estimate how long the universe has been around.

We can also keep track of time by watching stars turn supernova. Stars, like our sun, have a limited supply of gas which they eventually burn out, then collapse into themselves and become a black hole. This is one way we can see how the universe ages.

I don't have to think time exists, I know it exists.

Answer 3

I understand what you are asking. The question is do you?

For us to consider time elsewhere, we have to be in, or on that place. So far, we are not, or, rather, they that are elsewhere have not been discovered yet.

A year is one Earth orbit around the Sun. So if you lived on any of the other planets, a year there would be the same definition, but as we all know, not the same length of time as calculated in Earth Days. If you were there, you would be counting in Mars Days and Years, Jupiter Days and Years, Saturn Days and Years, etc. And, if you will check a few books you will find that things like Saturn years and Neptune years are pretty "long" things. Right now scientists are pretty sure that there is no life on any of the other planets in our Solar System. So, where you really need to go with this idea is out to one of the nearby stars which have planets orbiting them, just like we orbit our Sun. Did you know that about 200 of them have been identified and named so far. Since those planets orbit about their suns they have equivalent ways to mark time when they get around to needing a way to do that, or if there is anyone who cares there. Time can also be measured there though maybe not in the same increments that we use here on Earth. All things can be divided into segments like 1/24 or 1/2, etc. So time is out there just a
waiting for some princely person to begin dividing it up into workable units for us. That is why we have wrist watches and time clocks.

Answer 4

Time is pretty much a constant. Our rotation around the sun is just a way that we measure it's passage. Yes...time is the 4th dimension. There would not be time zones in space, because time zones are used only on earth to give a relative marker for the passage of the day, since not all of the earth gets its sunlight at the same time. Yes...Time Exists. As you get closer to the speed of light though, time slows down. This affect has been noticed on syncronized clocks that astronaughts take with them, that are a few seconds slow when they return, since relative to us, they are attaining higher velocities in relation to their movement through space.
Time in space could still be measured under our same standards(seconds,minutes, days, years), and could be done by mechanical clocks, electronic clocks, or clocks where computers measure atomic decay.

Answer 5

We base our idea of time on our day, and have broken that into hours, minutes, etc.
The difficult thing to wrap one's brain around is the idea that time is relative.
It exists everywhere in the universe, and for everyone, but depending on your vantange, it can be experienced differently.
Einstein told us that time and space we intimately connected, and the close one goes to approaching the speed of light, the slower time moves for that person...also interconnected is mass, which increases as time slows and the speed of light is approached.
Wild stuff.

Answer 6

There is time everywhere in the universe but there are not clocks. Beings on other planets will have there own standards of what they cansider a second or a minute.

Answer 7

Of Course ... Its part of the Space time continuum. Its the fourth dimension and exist throughout the universe... :)

Answer 8

time is a byproduct of the big bang,,,,,,along with,,,,,heat,light,smoke,fire,nebulae........to define completely this universe,,,we have to stand at the edge & peek over to whats beyond,,,,,,,,,anything beyond is outside our ability to imagine,,,,,,,,,,,time is like a soup that pervades every event,occurrence,,,,,,,from electrons circling atoms,,,to the speed of galaxies thrown out at the instant of the big bang.....time proceeds at different rates depending on the gravity field in which it operates.a second dimension,or a third and a fourth,,,,may exist,,we don't,can't know,because theres different soup involved,,,,,,,,,,,travel back in 'time' to talk to american indians ,say the ojibway about white people in modern english ,bringing with you a dvd player with black sabbath (back to the future when mr mcfly gets visited by kid in the space suit) play im music,explain what its like where you come from; itd be difficult......in their future is a huge amount of change,which ,in part,or whole,would be incomprehensible,,,,,,,,no common frame of reference,,except,bringing up kids,eating,sleeping,getting robbed,,,,,,,ar ar ar

Answer 9

Time behaves exactly the same everywhere. It does change for individuals as they gain speed and it slows to nothing relative to them as they approach the speed of light.

Answer 10

time as in seconds and minutes and years is a man made construct.

Time as a strange element that we would like to travel in exists exactly the same everywhere.

So yes, time exists always everywhere.