Emily talked about free-running (when there are no light cues and our circadian rhythm operates on a 25hour cycle) and the fact that a year is actually 325.25 days. She ended by asking, "Does anyone have any insight to why our interpretation of time is skewed? Is there a way to make it more accurate?"
Is our interpretation skewed of time because of the clock? If it is skewed because of the clock then what should our interpretation be? Whose to say that it is skewed when we don't know what the real answer is?
As for time being more accurate let's see, if there is 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour then that's 3,600 seconds in one hour. There is 24 hours in one day, 6 hours is 1/4. 6 x 3,600 = 21,600. 21,600/365 = approx. 59.18. So the most accurate way to make time would be adding 59.18 seconds to everyday(... I think, I'm not the best at math.) But are we going to change this leap year system that's been going on since 50-45 B.C. just to make time more accurate? No. We have time for our convinence, so we can plan and schedule events in a "timely manner." Why does it matter if it takes us four years to catch up on 43,200 seconds?
So my question is: Whose to say that our time is skewed when we don't even know what time is or if it even exsists?
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