who invented time?

Answer 1

The movement of the sun and our own internal body clocks gave a tangible sense of time as something to be measured. Many many moons ago. That's the only xplanation that I can think of.

And I found this reference with regard to when devices were first used to measure lengths of time shorter than a day:

"Sundials can be found in many ancient civilizations, including the Babylonian, Greek, Egyptian, and Roman ages. The oldest record of the sundial can be found in the Bible as it is alluded to in Job 7:2"

Mechanical clocks, as we know them now, were invented in the 1300's.

But maybe your question is more metaphysical. In which case, and in my case, I'd say that it was probably my mother who invented time.

Answer 2

The concept of time is one which has perhaps been in existence ever since mankind began to evolve. Time is mentioned in the first book of the bible with the world being created in 6 days and the Lord resting on the seventh. But time precedes this, and has always been measured, whether by marking the changes of the moon or the tides of the sea. Time featured within both Egyptian and Roman civilisations, but some Stone Age cave paintings indicate that seasons were already being monitored and recorded. Time would have been important to people even in those times, in order to know when to sow, nurture and then harvest crops. The Romans are generally credited with dividing up time as we know it today and they had sundials depicting hours and they regulated days and months as well as years. However each civilisation, no matter how remote and uncivilised will have had some means of measuring time, even if the time was measured in different units, so no single culture or epoch can take absolute credit for 'inventing' time.


Time was not "invented" as it does not really exist. It is a purely human mechanism for managing our lives.Outside the human framework all other organisms live "now" there is no yesterday or tomorrow in their conciousness. Of course they learn things and use that knowledge at a later date, but don't confuse that with having a concept of time.


Midnight~Angel :)

Answer 3

The measurement of time, is relative to a fixed point. One would suspect that the inventor must have lived close to the start point when time begun to be measured.

Of course, time existed before it was measured. It was therefore never invented, but it just exists as a dimension.

Who created time might be a more relevant question. As time is generally measured relative to Domini (AD or BC), we must assume that Domini started time and God created Domini.

If creation and invention are the same thing, then God created time. Otherwise, the "big bang" started time and was created by nuclear fission.

Nuclear fission is created by an enormous black hole, which was created presumably by the collapse of the universe. The collapse of a previous universe was presumably invented by the creation of any pre-existing universe.

In other words as long as time has existed, it's inventor has been unknown to anyone alive. One must just believe that prior to the existence of time, there was an entity which created time. Some people like to name this entity GOD.

You can choose whatever name you like to describe the creator.

Answer 4

Thomas Alva Edison, on his 133rd attempt. Early models tended to go either backward and forward simultaneously, or leap from moment to moment in awkward ways -- Edison once received a gag birthday gift from his great great niece Clara Barnstormer 14 years before she was born.

Finally on the evening of May 20-19, 1889 Edison developed a working model and fifteen years later applied for both a patent and trademark protection. Unfortunately for him, a magazine company had trademarked the name a few years earlier, and partially on this basis the patent application was denied and time devolved into the public domain.

Answer 5

Time always existed - Ways to measure it were progressively more accurate.
In ancient civilisations the Moon phases were enough, with Solstices sometimes marked by sacrifices.
By the time of Christ - Hours were marked and in part this was a military need, for guard changes during the night.
King Alfred in England Developed the time measuring candle.
John Harrison in England developed the first Chronometer for use by the Navy to save thousands of lives by enabling ships to know their longitude in relation to the Greenwich Meridian.
Seconds by now were vital since sunrise defined your position to within about 300 yards if you measured it with 1 second accuracy.
The first step towards universal time took place when rail time tables unified English time, until then Oxford time differed from London time by about 10 minutes.
A battle between Paris time and London time was finally won by London, and Greenwich Mean Time was born.
More battles ensued with the advent of the atomic clock with each Time Lab claiming to have the best. Finally time was agreed to be the average of over a dozen atomic clocks.
So here we are with atomic time accurate to within 1 second every 10,000 years.

Answer 6

Here's a wee bit of UK railway history.
Before BR came to the fore in 1947 , there were several rail companies , who all had their own time , around the mid 1800s. The 'standardization of time' came around 1860s.
As to who invented time? well! , that's a very deep question indeed. The moon's phases are a lot to do with it.

Answer 7

Dont think anyone invented time, its always been there, but the way we measure it was invented.

The Greeks had glasses of sand.
Romans used sundials
Chinese used water.
In Britain we used candles. It was first used in monastries so that the monks knew when to go to prayers. The candle has bands marked approximatley every hour on the candle.
Clocks came with the sailing ships I believe

Answer 8

Dont know but i know that grenich mean time was invented in england

Answer 9

Time wasn't invented.

Answer 10

Time wan't invented only ways to measure it.