• Question: how does time work?

    Asked by Ashantiana to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      Hi Ashantiana – there’s the biggest question ever. Nobody really knows what time IS, or how it works. It’s just there. We split it into seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years etc. to help us to keep track of it, and mark it’s passing based on things around us (how long it takes the earth to rotate, or to go round the sun), but since nobody knows that it IS, it’s hard to say how it WORKS.

      It there’s a specific aspect, try asking a related question and I’ll see if I can help….

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