Why It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
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[MUSIC]A long time ago on a far-away island, the people kept time by sunrise, sunset, and thecannon.Every day at noon, on the hill above town, soldiers would fire the cannon and set life’space in the village below.One day, a boy wanted to know how the soldiers knew when to fire.The artilleryman told the boy he gets the order from the captain.When he asked the captain, he said he keeps his watch synchronized to the great clockin the village.And when the boy asked the watchmaker how he sets the great clock, the watchmaker said,“I set it to the noonday cannon!”The way we tell time isn’t so different today.The cannon and soldiers have been replaced by tiny machines, but somehow we’ve allagreed to agree when, exactly, is now.So who decided what time it is, everywhe...
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[MUSIC]A long time ago on a far-away island, the people kept time by sunrise, sunset, and thecannon.Every day at noon, on the hill above town, soldiers would fire the cannon and set life’space in the village below.One day, a boy wanted to know how the soldiers knew when to fire.The artilleryman told the boy he gets the order from the captain.When he asked the captain, he said he keeps his watch synchronized to the great clockin the village.And when the boy asked the watchmaker how he sets the great clock, the watchmaker said,“I set it to the noonday cannon!”The way we tell time isn’t so different today.The cannon and soldiers have been replaced by tiny machines, but somehow we’ve allagreed to agree when, exactly, is now.So who decided what time it is, everywhe...
