CLAS 2P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arthur Eddington, Stone Age, Time Complexity
5 Jul 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Study of relative periods if time, which can be arranged in a sequence from older to younger. Study of time according to an absolute scale, like a calendar. My son was born oct 6th, 2011, born 15 years ago, 3rd millennium ce. Time is what keeps everything from happening at once" (sir arthur eddington) Cyclical- life cycles, life and deaths of a family repeating itself. Do these measure cyclical or linear time: usually cyclical like a clock, linear- like a year (years never repeat) Any way to record time and history- to give names to a period of time. Gregorian (we use)- purpose was to calculate when movable rituals occurred- such as easter: in our own lives we record time in our own ways. Academic calendar (when school starts and ends) Need recorded events: find sites that have clear beginnings and ends (rare) Things (artifacts) that we find in the ash of pompeii we know they were there before.
