Explanation of Time Zones and Their Creation, and improvement of Our thought of Time

What are Time Zones?

Well, we could ask what is time? To by comparison this, let us go to the beginning of what we can define as time. Let us hypothesize that, before the big bang, there was only energy, and no time. We can say that God was this energy. And "then" he decided to make things, so he converted this power into mass and hence was created the big bang, which was an explosion of the power force turning into matter. Exploding outwards in all directions, and creating the universe, or many universes, and therefore dimensions, where time is carefully the fourth dimension.

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Everything is relative. A plant grows. We collate the states "after" and "before", and in our minds we think time. An object moves from point A to point B, or relative to what we call points A and B, the universe shifts around, we call it before and after, and label the "time" it took for that object to move in the middle of these two points.

For us on earth, our reference point for time is the sun, the most safe bet object in our sphere of perception, with its movement "around us". But in fact it is not enchanting colse to us, but our earth is spinning. When the created particles exploded outward following the big bang, because they were petite particles of mass, they were attracted to each other, because mass objects are attracted to each other by gravity. We can stand on the earth because we are a mass object attracted to the great (relative to us) mass object of the earth. A Chinese someone is upside down compared to a Us person, because they are on the other side of the planet attracted and drawn by gravity to its centre.

In the same manner, all the petite mass particles jetting outwards from the centre of the big bang explosion are attracted to one another by gravity. Some particles are closer to one another, and they start to form clusters and groups. The clusters and groups which are attracted towards each other do so like water going down a drain. The fastest and naturally most effective way for the water to go down a drain is to start spinning, which also creates a hole in the centre straight through which air can leave upwards, as the space the air previously consumed is now being supplanted by the descending water. Water going down a drain in the southern hemisphere of our planet spins in the opposite direction as water going down the drain in the northern hemisphere.

In the same way when these mass particles start to attract to one another during our forming universe, they naturally form a spinning disk, much like with the water going down the drain. This big disk could eventually form a galaxy, universe, or solar system, with the most clusters and mass in the centre of the disk, all of it spinning around.

On a solar system level (solar means a sun), the most mass in the centre can form a sun, like ours. There is so much mass that the sheer weight of all these mass particles, attracted to one another under gravity, becomes so great that the pressure eventually ignites and starts a chemical reaction. Under the sheer weight of it all, and pressure, the chemical reaction converts hydrogen and helium back into energy, which we see as light and feel as heat.

The mass of our earth is also a lot, and the weight and pressure of this mass is great sufficient that, if we were to bore a hole 3 km towards the centre of the earth, the pressure and heat would be strong sufficient to melt all our tool (which are basically made from the iron ore found in our earth's, cooled crust). We are truly sitting on a very thin crust, the outer layer of the earth, which has cooled down to the point that we can stand on it (although, in the earlier days of the earth's development, the crust was mostly molten lava and exploding volcanoes, and it took a long time to cool down to where it is now). Past 3 km from the covering it is still all molten lava, which occasionally escapes to the covering straight through volcanoes or large earthquakes. But our earth is not large sufficient to ignite the reaction which creates power (which is conversion of mass back into energy) to turn it into a star. But Jupiter has just sufficient mass to make it a small star. There are other stars in the universe which are such a large range of mass and furnish so much gravity that they do not even let light escape, sucking all things into it.

For the same hypothesize that the particles of mass travelling outwards from the introductory big bang have drawn together in spinning disks, the hazy mass within the forming and spinning solar systems have also conglomerated into spinning matter, eventually forming spinning planets, now revolving colse to the sun at the same speed as the forming solar disk was previously spinning. There are two enchanting theories about the relative distance of the planets from the sun. One was postulated by Galileo who drew geometric shapes with an increasing amount of sides, and found that they perfectly fit into one another. another system calculates that the relative distances of the planets from the sun collate exactly with the relative distance in the middle of the frequencies of musical notes, whereby F# would be the asteroid belt, and hence deemed an unstable orbit and where a planet could not form properly. This is just one example of the phenomenal harmony of nature, which one can also reconsider as proof of the divine existence of God.

Therefore, we have our sun in the centre of our own solar system, and our planet spins in an orbit colse to it, our planet itself spinning around, with the moon spinning in an orbit colse to us.

As our planet spins, it appears to us that the sun revolves colse to us. The Sumerians (the race of citizen living in Mesopotamia in what is now modern day Iraq and from where Abraham first came and was called by God) were the first great civilisation on earth and which defined for us time, using another very coarse object for us: our hands and fingers. If we were a Sumerian, how might we divide up a day, which is basically the time it takes for our earth to spin colse to once, or from our perspective, for our sun to revolve colse to us until it came back to the same place it started at? Well, we might look at our hands and fingers and use them to divide up things. We would divide up the whole day into two: the dark half and the light half. We have four fingers and a thumb. Looking at the four fingers, each has three segments, manufacture up 12 segments total. Three segments times four fingers makes 12, so let us divide up each half day into 12 hours. Now if we take this amount 12 generated by the four fingers of our left hand, and multiply it by the fingers and thumb of our right hand, we get 12 hours times 5, which makes 60. So lets divide each hour into 60 private minutes, and divide up each petite into 60 private seconds. And this is truly how we humans have defined for ourselves time. A year, which works out to 365 days (with some leap years, because our means of creating time is not exact), is the amount of times the earth spins colse to its own axis (creating what we call a day) while the earth revolves in its orbit colse to the sun to come back to the same place it started at.

This is how the Sumerians defined time. But because the world is a round globe, the beginning of night and day is distinct depending on where you are settled in the world. What is high noon for someone in the Us would be pitch black midnight for someone in China, on the other side of the world. Therefore, over time, we humans started to draw imaginary lines on the planet, cutting up the planet into 24 parts, one for each hour of the day.

In the days of old, citizen used a sundial to tell the time, which is basically a solar clock. A petite stick at a safe bet angle which would cast a shadow as the sun, from our perspective, would revolve colse to our planet. But as humans advanced, and with the invention of railroads (the first time zone Gmt was in fact created by British Railways), and communication becoming faster and faster, it got to a point where it was vital to set some relative times in the middle of each place. So the earth was carved into one hour slices, usually along political borders, or what we humans opinion would be the best way. This way, if ever taking a train, you would know exactly what time you should arrive at a safe bet city, which fell in a safe bet time zone, subtract or add the amount of hours on your clock, and all things started to make great sense for our developing societies.

During humanity's development, the period during all this defining was when England was a great power in the world, controlling many colonies. And with such power during this development, and such a strong naval power, in 1675 they labelled the centre of our time in Greenwich, and defined Greenwich Mean Time (Gmt) as the zero time zone to help ships navigate the world and define longitudinal lines, such that the remaining parts of the world were either plus or minus so many hours from this zero point. The sun rises from our west and sets in our east. So if we move along the planet westwards, we are going back in our petite created time, towards the morning of the time zone we are enchanting towards. Likewise, if we fly east, we are flying towards the setting sun, towards the end of the day, and hence we would add time to our clock. But in the big scheme of things, the time in the universe is steady, whereby we are only adding or subtracting hours on our own clock, naturally for the convenience of defining for us what is morning and what is evening (in terms of the angle of the sun with reference to the point on the globe that we are stationed at). And if we go far sufficient west or east, meaning 12 hours in either direction from the Gmt zero time, we will end up on the other side of the world from Greenwich England, where we could add or subtract half a day. So on one side of this other imaginary line it is a day later or earlier than on the other side. But this is just how we have divided up things, based on our fingers and the rotation of the earth and sun.

In the big scheme of things, time is constant, and God is eternal. God, in whose eyes "a day is like a thousand years", and who is "the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end". Things continue as they continue, and are as they are, but we humans, for our own convenience, have divided up all things according to the amount of segments on our fingers. And we wake up hurriedly every morning to catch the 6:50 bus, to get to work by 9:00. These are all our own inventions.

And then we have daylight savings, which is the adding or subtracting of an hour to or from a particular time zone and at a particular time of the year, to help the farmer get up early to begin work in his field. But over time, the farmer did not have such an import or dominant role in society. Some areas use daylight savings while others do not. Recently, the Us has shifted the time when it applies daylight savings because it has calculated it can save its cheaper billions of dollars by not forcing citizen to use their air conditioners so much at work.

And now that you understand how humans perceive time, perhaps you might be interested in how time is perceived in the eyes of God!

Explanation of Time Zones and Their Creation, and improvement of Our thought of Time