Everything worked out fine, but humans want things neat and orderly (yeah we do, that's why we learn math). We wanted to count time. So we made seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries...
What is a year? a day? an hour?
A year is the amount of time it takes the Earth to completely orbit the Sun.
A day it the time it takes the Earth to rotate completely.
An hour is just a twenty-fourth of a day. A minute is 1/60 of an hour. A second is 1/60 of a minute.
Simple enough...so why does time not exist?
See, this is where things get confusing. Is a year the same on Earth as on, say, Venus? The time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun is different than the time it takes Venus to orbit the Sun. So which is it? Is an Earth year the standard year for the whole universe? No. So from this we can conclude that time is relevant.
Last updated November 10, 2001
