Over the centuries, time has given birth to numerous fascinating facts

Time; is it real, or a theory created by ancestors to track everyday happenings? Over the generations, there have been several debates around time, and in the days to come, further debates will take place. However, this article sheds light on the various fascinating facts that time has given birth since its outset.

• As per Einstein’s theory of relativity, time travels swifter on your face than the feet. In short, time moves slower if you are closer to the centre of the planet. To lay it in a modest term, a year on the top of Mount Everest gets over in 15 microseconds faster than that at the sea level.
• Since childhood, we’ve been taught that a day contains 24 hours. However, a day is composed of 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. This fact also states that the earth takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds to complete one rotation.
• Till the 18th century, every village had its own time zone as they used to set their time as per their local solar noon.
• When we travel to a new or an unfamiliar place, time runs slower for us. It happens so that the human brain takes time to process new information. In a new place or on a new road, the information is new to the brain. However, visit the same place or travel on the same road again and time will fly in the ordinary known pace.
• All things the mortal eyes see is in the past. To see a thing, the human eyes rely on light and the light takes time to reach us. For example, the first ray of sunlight we see takes eight minutes and 20 seconds to strike earth, which means the light is already late by eight minutes and 20 seconds.
• When the dinosaurs ruled the earth, a year had 370 days. However, the earth now has 365 days because of the moon’s gravitational pull. The moon’s gravity produces a drag because of which our days are getting longer. Every century, the days grow longer by 1.7 milliseconds.
• On the planet Mercury, a single day is as lengthy as two years.
• In the world of physics, there’s no such thing as time. Gravity and speed affect time and space because of which they are fluid in nature. Einstein quoted, “For us physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”