Global 1
What is the name of the original central clock system?
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
What was a central reason for the creation of time zones?
Railroads/travel
What is the most common noun in the english language?
Time
TRUE OR FALSE: Has the concept of time evolved or changed in the past 100 years?
TRUE
What factors influenced the creation of time? (Name 2!)
power, religion, capitalism, colonialism, science
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of -----."
Capitalism
What is time compared to throughout the text?
A commodity
How did societies operate before overarching scientific time systems were established?
Following daylight and natural rhythms
How was time used as a method of colonialism?
Europeans felt their time systems were superior to those they colonized and imposed them on Asian and African societies
TRUE OR FALSE: Zadeh beleives that nature and natural processes can be measured and predicted by time.
FALSE
"We are ---- ------- Animals"
When does clock time "official take over the world"
When time zones are established globally --> (the 1884 international meridan conference)
He was trying to disrupt time.
Following the bombing of the royal observatory, which location was also bombed?
Crawford market in Paris.
"Let the people of Cincinnati stick to the truth as it is written by the ---, ----, -----
sun, moon, and stars
Although a second is thought to define a fraction of the earth's orbit around the sun, what does it actually quantify/define?
The # of oscillations of cesium atoms in the atomic clock