Sunday, April 24, 2011

Musings on time scaling

I have a thought. If Big Bang Theory is true as most of us believe or understand and accept as fact, then it has a very interesting consequence. I don't know if anybody has thought this or not; we can do away with our ridiculous methods of tracking time. We can start with t=0 at big bang. I understand time is relative, but for normal purposes we can accept the current definition of the second as defined in SI system. This will do away with time scale based on earth rotation around itself and its revolution around the sun.These scales are not constant and necessitate introduction of leap seconds and years. Also when we move to other planets we can't have earth hours or mars days!!!! We need a common time scale. Also it will do away with the A.D and B.C. In fact it will completely replace the calender. Also the prime source of this frustration is the conversion factor to convert minutes to seconds, or hours to minutes. We can replace it with the beauty and ingenuity of the decimal system. So we have t=0 at big bang. Then we can have a kilosecond,a megasecond ..... Initially this may sound confusing but we ll get used to it. We can use our creativity to create calenders based on this system to schedule our meetings etc. More thought needs to be put into this, but now I have to get ready for work.Also the system of measuring angles need a radical change or maybe relooking (google "gon").

P.S.
1. There is a +/- 0.17 billion years estimate of error in t=0 so we have to arrive at a compromise.
2. Creative views first, critical views second.