Measurement of time
What is measurement?
Measurement refers to first specifying a basic quantity, that is, the unit, and then using a ratio, or how many of the basic quantities to express the size.
It’s a fundamental way for human beings to understand the world.
It’s able to achieve globalize unit
It’s allow us accurately describe the information with numerical values, and can share knowledge.
Time
Time is a quantitative measure for us to understand things. The quantification of time refers to 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes one hour, 60 seconds one minute.
If 100 million years have passed in a space where nothing exists, this space will not change. And objects move all the time, so the field changes all the time. Fields are generated from objects and interact, and the meaning of time is to make the interaction of objects order.
Time in nature
Star trail
Tree-ring
Human defined time
Time zone
3473 dots - 3473 seconds
Deconstruction of clock
Structure
Date
Setting level, minute
Time is a very objective thing, defined by humans. But the elapsing of time will never be shifted by human will. Everyone has 24 hours in a day. But the perception of time is very subjective, and people have their own unique perceptions of the speed of time. But why does time pass faster and faster with age?
The reason why we feel that time is getting faster and faster is not an illusion, but is related to the changes in our brain. Time itself does not become faster. Perceived time is actually a personal perception of the speed of time, which can be called psychological time. A well-known joke by Einstein explains psychological time very well. Einstein was once forced to explain the theory of relativity. He said: "When you are with a beautiful woman, you feel that time flies very fast, and when you are forced to grill on the stove with a bad old man, You will feel that time flies very slowly!"
In that way, human beings subjectively have "time perception". We can perceive the time interval and estimate the duration of events. If we experience a lot of things and deal with complexity within a period of time, we will feel that this period of time has passed very quickly; in the same period of time, if the number of events is small and simple, we will feel that the events have passed very slowly.
In other words, although objectively, our lives are certain. But subjectively, it can be elongated. However, as long as the development of technology, the pace is becoming very quickly. The way we treat things, people, and society are all affected by the pace. However, I think it’s really important for people to understand themself and really enjoy the things that happen around them.
In order to let people pay attention to the time and then try to slow down. I designed this series of hourglasses. When people pick up these hourglasses of various forms, they must put aside other things that they are doing and play with them. Instead of limiting your time and speed like a normal hourglass, my design purpose is opposite. It allows you to make your own moments of time.
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