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The Portuguese |
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Those who have eyes Will see! |
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Why does the day have 24 hours, not 20? |
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With the help of Geometry it will be easier.
First of all, let's understand the units used in time count.
Why? The count of fractions of day is not decimal, why is that? Hours are 24 instead of 10. This look like a simple question, not very important, but there shall be a convincing explanation to justify such a counting method.
If we were to invent the day fractions, now! There should be 20 hours - Wouldn't it be much better?
It seems not logical. But thinking of 20 is far more rational than 24, as we have 10 fingers and 10 toes in our human body.
We should have 10 hours for the day and 10 for the night.
Maybe 5 hours for each section, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, High Night, completing a 20-hour day. Wouldn't it be great that way? At least, it seems Rational.
Everything would be decimal, no dozens, simplified rather than complicated. If the human is to count, and has five fingers in each hand, then they are five even and five uneven totaling ten – Why dozens, six or twenty four? Why is it that way and it was not changed to decimals? WHY?
We have been counting time that way, 6, 12 and 24, for so long that it is part of our conscience now. We naturally think that way with no questioning, all of us are excessively used to it.
The divisions in 60 seconds to form a minute, 60 minutes to for an hour, 6 hours for each section of the day, high night, morning, afternoon and evening, for a total of 24 hours.
Day with light has 12 hours + 12 without light, Night.
Using Geometry
Yes, we do have an explanation with geometry on why fractions of a whole are in sixties and did not follow the pentagonal fingers.
Six parts of a whole can show the geometry of a circle. Recalling that the circle is the simplest figure after the dot and the straight line.
Before entering geometry, we have to make some considerations.
First: should we consider geometry an exact science? Yes / No ?
We would say that it is due to the simple fact that we can draw a circle today with a given radius, and it will be always the same, now, yesterday and in the future.
That is, there will be no difference among circles drawn in any time. They will be all the same, regardless of when they will be drawn.
Geometry is an exact science for that reason, figures are always exactly the same regardless of when they have been built.
Therefore, a word defines it, EXACT-ly equal Science, always!
Let's jump into geometry, which is an exact science ever since the ancient Greece, remembering that the traces to be shown below have been already built by the philosopher Pythagoras and some others.
We will draw a circle, with a given radius unit, for instance 1 (one).
Placing point of compasses in a given spot, we construct the figure drawing until we are back to the starting point, closing the ends.
Dear reader, be patient to observe every step, even as it looks like so basic. Only following it step by step we can relate geometry to time count. It is important to draw the conclusion exactly when a question arises.
Repeating the process, we draw a second circle exactly like the first, but with a lighter trace.
Drawing a new circle from each point, that's it:
In the final, we will have six circles drawn around the original, closing a six-based set, EXACT-ly equal, always.
The last circle drawn will coincide with the center of the first. This could NOT be the case, but it is, in nature it will always be!
Geometry demonstrates that six around one is coincident by nature, not by chance.
We conclude that such division is not related to the number of fingers that we humans have.
Dividing by five is comfortable for us, however irrational for the geometry of a circular whole.
We start to understand that things should be divided by SIX not FIVE.
Geometry greatly helps us to draw conclusions.
Note that the same radius of one is kept in each other circles:
The denomination of a sixth is NOW compatible and justifiable.
Keeping the time count in a six-based system serves the geometry, not our comfortable five-based system of the fingers.
Note that other intersections happen in the external part, in the middle of a sixth, dividing the sixth in halves.
Now we have six more divisions between the shown sixth.
Should we call it the half of a sixth (1/6)/2 ?
Or, just understanding it, we call every half of a sixth a 1/12?
Geometrically speaking, first there are six divisions coinciding with the main circle - previously mentioned. And now we have other six divisions between halves of the previous ones. And the new ones with external importance, coinciding with the secondary circles, far from the main circle. |
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Closed circle with radius one
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