- Though not proven, it is often found that people
pair Father Time with Mother Nature as a married couple because of their
parental nature. Father Time has been a prevalent part of many cultures throughout the ages.
- Chronos (also known as
Chronus) is the personification of time itself. Indeed, the word means
"time" and is the root of "chronology" and other modern words.
- It was,
however, originally employed in a purely poetic sense. There is no God
or Goddess directly associated with time per se in the annals of Greek
mythology, but there may have been a Titan of Time.
- Saturn (referred to by the
Greeks as Cronus or Kronos) was the Roman Deity of Time and an ancient
Italian Corn God known as the Sower. Saturn's weapon was a scythe or sickle.
- Since ancient history, time has been identified with Saturn.
- In India, the concept of time is not associated with any deity .
- In India, the time schedule is considered as follows :
- The smallest unit of time is a kaashta which is 18 times the amount of time it
takes to blink an eyelid.
- 10 kaashtas make a kshanam and 12 kshanams
constitute a muhoortam. 60 of these muhoortams constitute a day.
- 30 days constitute a month and 3 months make up a ritu. 12 months of course
constitue a human year.
- We now move on from the human plane to the world of the departed souls - the pitrus.
Here, a human month equals the length of a day.
- The brighter half of a lunar month
constitutes the pitru's day time and the darker half their night.
- In the realm of the Devas or the Gods, a human year constitutes a single day.
- The
brighter half of the year Uttarayanam makes up the day time hours of the
Devas while the darker half Dakshinayanam makes up the night time hours.
- An epoch or a yuga is the next higher level of measurement.
- a single day in Bhrahma's life spans 2000 * 4,320,000 ie. 8,640,000,000 human years.
- Scientifically Time is represented through change, such as the circular motion of the
moon around the earth. The passing of time is indeed closely connected
to the concept of space.
- Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects.
- Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in the International System of Units.
- Two contrasting viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers.
- One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.
- The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of
"container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity
that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual
structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be traveled.
so , as we know time and tide waits for none ... so, along with conservation of mother nature, conservation of time is also equally important. ..have a good time ...
