Ep 105: What If We've Been Measuring Time All Wrong?

Have you ever stopped and wondered who decided today is Wednesday, or tomorrow is Thursday, or Sunday is the last day of the week? Seriously, who, [laughs] who decided when the year starts, that there should be 12 months in a year, that the work week is Monday to Friday, or that February has 28 days? It's funny because we don't really question it.

We just accept it.

We open our phones.

We look at the calendar.

We schedule appointments.

We celebrate birthdays.

We bring in the holidays on certain days, and we trust what is being given to us for the timelines that we're measuring all this in.

But when you really stop and think about it, time itself is actually manmade.

It is a construct of us, of man.

It's the way we organize events and time in our life, really.

And with that, I think it's important to recognize that the Earth has always rotated, the moon has always orbited the Earth, and seasons have always changed.

We humans simply created systems to organize those natural movements, and I think that's what sent me down the rabbit hole.

I've done a couple episodes where I talk about how I live in cycles, whether it's within the week, within the months, within the seasons.

I have different cycles that I notice patterns in.

I'm definitely a pattern recognizer.

I'm always looking for patterns in my life, and I think that's what originally got me on this topic.

Let's go back before calendars.

Imagine living 10,000 years ago.

I know it's crazy to think [laughs] that far back.

There were no clocks that we know of, no calendars, no planners, uh, no iPhones that you were putting all your appointments in.

So how did people keep track of time? How did they know when to plant crops? How did they know when the winter season was coming? How did they know when animals would be migrating? They looked up.

The sun told them what season it was.

The moon told them roughly what month they were in, and the stars acted like a map.

And that's why we see it so often in hieroglyphics, in caves.

Like, the stars are referenced all the time in anything that is ancient history.