Time


 * __Big bang theory__****__Questions:__**1) About how long ago did the big bang take place? 2) What is a black hole?3) Does the universe continue to expand?4) Was there really a big bang?5) What "light elements" seem to support the Big Bang Theory?**__Answers:__**1) About 13.7 Billion years ago2) Black Holes are areas of intense gravititional pressure. Black holes have so much pressure anything that goes into it will be squished into infinite matters.3) The Universe contintues to cool down and continues to expand while we are in it.4) Scientists say there was no "bang" it was just an expantion of the universe the continues to this very day 5) The "light elements" Hydrogen and helium found in the univerese are thought to have supported the big bang

1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted.  The Gregorian calendar also known as the western calendar or the Christian calendar, this calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII who the calendar was named after, by decree signed on February 24 1582. Other countries adopted this calendar because it was accurate with the lunar transitions.

2) What is a leap year?   Every year that is divisible by four is a leap year. Unless the year is divisible by 100. For example year 1900 is not a leap year but 2000 is a leap year.

3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar). 1. The Julian calendar assumes that time accumulated to 365.25 days. The church uses the Julian calendar also used for calculating Easter.   2.    4) What is BC? BC means before Christ

5) What is BCE? BCE means before common era  6) What is AD? AD means Anno Domini the year of Christ’s birth  7) What is CE? CE means common era  8) What is MYA? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">MYA means million years ago. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There are 21 periods of time <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age? Eon is 4 total, half a billion years or more, era is 12 total, several hundred million years, Epoch is tens of millions of years, Age is millions of years <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 11) List three ancient calendars <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Aztec calendar<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Egyptian calendar 3.stone hedge <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sundial: you would be able to tell what time it was from the angle of the sun pointing at the dial <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Water Clocks: They would fill up with water and empty out telling you how many hours it took to empty out, thus telling you the time. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Mechanical clocks appeared in towers in Italy. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A Pendulum increased a clock’s accuracy per day by one second. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 15) What are time zones? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Time zones tell the time in different places by longitude <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 16) What is the prime meridian? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The intial longitude for timekeeping <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii?’ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 18) What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Day light savings is when we go back one hour. Saskatchewan doesn’t have daylights saving <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">19) Is there a year zero? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">No because a year is 365 days. Zero years cant exist if we don’t have one year first <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> 20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2011 **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">21) What is linear time? ** Linear time is a concept where by time is seen sequentially, as a series of events that are leading toward something: beginning, and an end. In Newtonian theory it is something absolute in reality, regardless of human perception. Time repeats it’s self in a cyclical motion <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">22) What is cyclical time? **