The history of time in a nutshell


	The history of time in a nutshell

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4-1-2007 1:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/677034a2-0707-4502-8c5b-137d7e5c46bf/96995B33-58CA-494F-BD32-E9D064E2375D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400" href="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400" style="font-size: 11px;">science.qj.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400"><DIV>
If you ever wondered why we have 24 hours in a day, 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, you can look at early <A href="http://science.qj.net/New-Telescope-to-Find-ETs/pg/49/aid/19882" title="Alien civilizations">civilizations for the answer.</A> We owe it all to the Egyptians, Babylonians and the Sumerians.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.qj.net/img/721B5885-2418-4DB6-8E3C-567D58B99953" alt="egyptian - Image 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400">In the early ages of humanity, night and day was treated as separate realms of time and were not thought of as part of a greater whole</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400"><DIV>Using a sundial which evolved from a crude stick in the ground to a T-shaped rod to a water clock, the concept of time was generated. Night, however, was a different story because there was no sun to use for the sundial and the moon wasn't always there. Luckily, there are 12 stars that appear and disappear in the course of hours to base the foundation of a 24-hour day.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400"><A href="http://science.qj.net/Close-Encounters-Of-The-Delusional-Kind/pg/49/aid/56715" title="egypt and aliens">The Egyptians</A> were then able to develop the water clock that supplemented the calculation of seconds and hours developed by the Sumerians and inherited by Babylonians. The system was sexadecimal and based on the number 60</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.qj.net/The-history-of-time-in-a-nutshell/pg/49/aid/87400">60 is easily divisible by the first six numbers</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/96995B33-58CA-494F-BD32-E9D064E2375D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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