#time scale

[whats-in-a-sentence]

A unified geologic time scale

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

[gardenfractals]

[daybreaksys]

If I knew anything about ancient Egypt back in 2012, I'd be super mad at Cleo de Nile's name choice.

Because mummies and pyramids are from 4 thousand years BEFORE Cleopatra and the Egyptian L sound itself.

Cleopatra is from 2 thousand years ago. If you think she's ancient, remember mummies and pyramids were twice as ancient FOR HER.

2 thousand years from now people will genuinely believe Cleopatra used Snapchat.

[datarep]

Proportional Geologic Time Scale

[restoechandra]

"The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology."

"As far as I know. It is the only ancient religious tradition on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale.

In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years old, and that billions is indwelling, and no one can understand it. The Hindu concept is very clear. Here is a great world culture which has always talked about billions of years."

Carl Sagan

[justiineks]

Time

Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter

Morning, Midday, Afternoon, Evening

Year, Month, Day, Second

Kindergarten, school, work, cemetery

It's everywhere but at the same time

It visits each of us differently

I met Time on a spring morning

My brother on a winter evening

My grandmother at a summer afternoon

Maybe someone else on an autumn night?

Time is linear but what has been is already gone

And are there even things that will yet to be?

It's like a squeezed box but it has no boundaries

Maybe a circle? But we don't start things from the beginning

There are times when a moment comes and it echoes somwhere in the past, yet we know how fresh it is

Still green and untouched

It can be broken, repaired

Can be unchanged

But not all moments are like that, time is not so kind

There are moments that never come back

And there are moments that come with you

Thick chains around your legs pull the scale of the time gone by

There's something on that timeline you just can't leave where you found it

In a world full of butterfly effects it found you and now you're responsible for it

We couldn't call it a pet, because pets we can choose

But we don't choose these moments

And strange as it may be, neither does Time

These moments are like the solution to a mathematical problem

If we put all our personal units of time together, we arrive at a moment

The one that stays with you

With your Time

[francois-chung]

Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales

MIT neuroscientists identified clusters of neurons that appear to respond to word strings of different lengths. These “temporal windows” ran

« We already know that in the language network, there is sensitivity to how words go together and to the meanings of individual words. So that could potentially map to what we’re finding, where the longest timescale is sensitive to things like syntax or relationships between words, and maybe the shortest timescale is more sensitive to features of single words or parts of them. »

[academicelephant]

Sharks first appeared 450 million years ago, making them older than trees (which appeared somewhere between 350 and 420 million years ago), The Himalayas (which came into being 50 million years ago) and even The Rings of Saturn (which formed 100 million years ago)