If you could hypathetically visit another planet, Mars for example, would you still be in the year 2007, since every planet has its own days and years?
2007-09-08 08:34:08 · 7 answers · asked by brewer37 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
But hypatheitcally it would still be a different year wouldnt it. I mean of all the planets have different time's why would the whole universe go by Earth time
2007-09-08 08:42:52 · update #1
The year 2007 A.D. is considered to be 2010 years after the birth of Jesus Christ (yes, he was born in 3 B.C. a monk made an error and it has been accepted ever since). A.D. is often called the Common Era or A. E. and it is the time as known on EARTH.
Each Martian year = 1.8808 years according to the Julian Calendar; the accepted calendar. So it would be the MARTIAN year 1097.099, but there are no Martians to use that calendar.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity your time is determined by your frame of reference so your time, 2007, would not change. It has been set up by the commonly shared time frame on Earth. Your frame of reference remains the same, even if you move to a different position in space. The whole universe goes by the same time AS WE SEE IT, our frame of reference. So while alien civilizations may have different calendars they all measure the same objective time; that doesn't change. It only changes when you approach the speed of light. Sure living at different speeds will cause different subjective time rates, but we use the same subjective rate that the stationary clocks measure and that is what we set all of our clocks by. Even at the speed that space shuttle rotates at the difference in time rates caused by speed can only be measured in nanoseconds.
2007-09-08 08:44:11 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since no planets that we know about are inhabited, none of them have calendars. But you are right, a calendar on Mars would be different from an Earth calendar. The time would be the same, but it would be counted differently by a calendar designed to use Martian days and years.
2007-09-08 15:46:23 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every planet does have its own length of day and year.
But the calendar we use is a human construction, that only matters to us.
So if we were on Mars, we would use our own calendar and adjust it, or create a new one for that world.
Calendars, clocks, time, etc. do not exist as a natural thing. They are created by humans (and probably any other intelligent life forms).
If there were intelligent beings on Mars or wherever, they probably have their own clocks and calendars.
2007-09-08 16:16:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, unless you set the calander to the Gregorian calander. Infact, not even earth is in the year 2007. Thats only the most widely used calander, the gregoian calander. For instance, islams are still in the year 1428! So it really just depends.
2007-09-08 15:44:39 · answer #4 · answered by iam"A"godofsheep 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The time is NOW regardless of where you are. 'Hypothetically' if there were martians, they would have a different calendar and they would CALL the year you were there something different, but it would still be the same time either way.
2007-09-08 15:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes your clock would be set to earth time.
2007-09-08 15:40:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well considering the rotational and orbital differance i would have to say, yeah, it would be diff
2007-09-08 17:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋