What do you think about time? What is the importance of watches to you? Is it possible to imagine life without a clock?
It can be difficult to give a short answer to these questions.
Therefore, we have written for you 11 facts related to the importance of time in human life:
1. How is language related to time?
Time is often thought of as a straight line, but where does this supposed straight line go? What is its direction?
But what we are imagining is not there, that is, there is no line.
Now that said, the answer to all these questions depends on what language you speak.
Our thinking and understanding of time is greatly influenced by the language we use.
For example, English speakers think of time as forward or backward.
English speakers point their hands forward when referring to the future and backward when referring to the past.
Time is also considered as a straight line extending from right to left on the horizon.
People living in China and speaking Chinese see time as a line going from top to bottom, not only that, but the future is thought to lie beneath this top-to-bottom line.
The Greeks considered time not in length, but in three dimensions. Similarly, a tribe in Australia considered time as east and west.
In addition, our language determines our understanding of the passage of time. We remember what someone says about their present better than what they say about their past.
2. What you understand now is not
Now when you are reading these words it will be very easy to understand but not so.
For example, think of the person who is sitting across the table from you and speaking.
Their signals reach you before their words because light travels faster than sound. Our brain connects the two.
That is why we believe that when a person’s lips move, he is speaking.
We notice when the lips are moving first, but that’s not the weirdest thing about timing.
3. There can be no conscious experience without time
We count the ticks of the clock with the help of our hands. Now imagine that it is ticking, sir, this ticking is your heartbeat.
When it comes to time and our existence, it goes hand in hand with the ticking of the clock and the beating of our heart.
A person lying in a dark cave, no matter how far away from the world and clocks he may be, is still under the influence of his body clock.
Holly Anderson studies science, philosophy and metaphysics at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. “If we lose track of time, it will affect our perception of ourselves,” he says.
He believes that ‘if there is no understanding of time and we do not feel the passage of time, then we will not feel anything.’
Think about what you are today because of the passage of time. Your personality is formed over time.
Your personality is nothing but a collection of memories.
4. No watch is 100 percent accurate
Scientists work very hard to measure time. They use the latest technology to keep track of the passing moments, minutes, hours.
Although their atomic clocks are very accurate, they are still unable to measure time perfectly.
No clock on earth can accurately measure time. Now the process of determining what time it is involves many clocks.
This is how world time is calculated.
National laboratories send their readings to the International Institute of Weights and Measures in Paris (France). There the average of these readings is calculated.
The only thing to remember is that time is a human invention.
5. Time is experienced only in our mind
Our thinking or understanding of time is shaped by many factors, such as our awareness, concentration, meaning, and understanding that we exist.
Our perception of time keeps us connected to our mental reality.
Our life not only begins with time but also continues with it. We only experience and enjoy life through time.
One of the benefits of this is that we feel that we have some control over our lives.
For example, if you don’t want your life to be rushed, there is a solution and that is to make room for innovation in your life.
Research has found that, similarly, normal life sometimes seems to pass too quickly.
In contrast, if you maintain innovation in life, life will begin to flow smoothly moment by moment.
Time will not seem to pass.