Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Time


Time...is an imaginable measuring thing humans use to calculate when the sun goes up, and goes down. For years, we calculate 365 "days" for one year. If the present is now, but now is the past, what is the future? Well, I don't really know what Mr. Martin said, I heard it from my sister. We have so many units for time. There are milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, etc.

One of the most common ways of telling time are reading clocks. Many people forget that ancient civilizations used sundials. They are used by using the shadow of the triangle in the middle, and are aligned with the north and south poles. Now, we have analog and digital clocks. Digital clocks are more popular nowadays, because you just look at it and don't have to think. People are getting lazy and depend on technology to do things. Just like computers, we practically use them everyday, and I'm not really sure what people did when they were bored before. Read books? I don't know if I could live without a computer. I get tired when I read books, and I read Schindler's List for my history class when I go to sleep.

Another topic on time, is time travel. When did people think they could travel through time? Many books and movies include time travel such as "Back to the Future". In "The Butterfly Effect", a man travels back in time reading his old journals. He tries to fix his mistakes in the past, but have all led to a new, undesirable future. In the end, he commits suicide by wrapping himself around the umbilical cord in his mom. Some people think wormholes are the key to time travel. Wormholes connect two points in spacetime.

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