10 Interesting Facts That’ll Change Your Perception Of Time
Would it be wrong to say that we see certain things as if they have existed forever?
We aren’t saying that we have taken technology for granted or societal reforms for that matter.
The focus here is on time and how we have a very stationary perception of it.
Does this sound like some high level philosophy lecture to you?
Uhmm, sorry!
Just tell us if you have associated famous people with a certain time period.
We have all done it, no big deal so just confess!
Anyway, the shocking part is that our attitude about time has fooled us and so we decided
to reveal some interesting facts that will challenge our knowledge about time!
Number 10.
Humans live 80 milliseconds in the past How many times have you counseled someone
to ditch the past and live in the present?
We have done it but have never realized that we are all living in the past.
There wasn’t an ounce of philosophy here, we just revealed a scientific fact!
Our brains relay and translate information a bit slower than instantly.
The events are processed by our brain some 80 milliseconds after they occur.
We are lagging behind in the past, even if it is less than a second only!
Number 9.
Star Wars precedes the abolishment of Guillotine The past and the future existed together at
one point of time.
Confused?
Okay now we took some creative liberty here because technically this isn’t possible
but it is interesting to know that the first Star Wars movie was released in 1977.
Wow, we came up with such a futuristic setting in the 70s!
Now think of the guillotine, the infamous way of executing people in France.
It sounds something that existed only in 19th century but would you believe us if we told
you that the last execution carried out by the guillotine was on September 10, 1977?
That was 3 months and 16 days after the first Star Wars movie released!
Number 8.
Living grandchild of 18th century man US president, John Tyler was born in 1790,
a year before the first President selected the site for White House.
That is more than 200 years ago!
Now imagine that this man who was born in the 18th century has a living grandchild!
Can you believe that?
This fictional sounding story is a reality which became possible due to the fact that
at the age of 63, John Tylor had a son whom he named Lyon Gardiner Tyler.
This son became a father to Lyon Gardiner Tyler Junior at the age of 71.
Since they were feeling young in their seventies, we have the privilege of seeing alive, the
grandchild of a person who was born 2 centuries ago!
Number 7.
Stegosaurus was older to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T. Rex is to us
We have all believed that there was an age of dinosaurs and they all lived together in
that time period.
Unawareness is a bliss!
The two species of dinosaurs in question did not live in the same time period.
Your whole childhood was a lie!
The Stegosaurus lived some 150 million years ago whereas T-Rex was more recent and lived
65 million years ago.
Now put it mathematically, T-Rex came 85 million years after the Stegosaurus which makes it
closer to humans than its own friends!
Our perception of time leaves room for time to play with our perception!
Number 6.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank share the same birth year
We all know about the man who fought for the rights of blacks, the most respected activist,
Martin Luther King Jr. and similarly we have read about the brave Anne Frank, a Jewish
victim of the Holocaust.
Both these people were brave and we remember them even today but they belong to completely
different time periods, right?
Wrong, both of them were born in 1929 just like the famous Hollywood actor Christopher
Plummer.
Now the actor can have nothing to do with the time when Nazi’s were killing people,
right?
Uhmm, actually he too was born in the same year!
Number 5.
Born at same moment but have different birth-DAYS Do you know that about 4 people are born in
the world every second?
That means that there is a good chance that 3 other people took their first breath with
your birth, amazing.
But another amazing thing is that they might not be sharing their birthday with you!
How is that even possible?
Well, blame time zone for this!
At 1pm in Washington, USA, the time in Canberra, Australia is 5am of the next day.
So babies born at the exact same time will actually be born on two different dates!
Number 4.
Cleopatra’s time was closer to the first McDonald’s than the pyramids of Giza
Admit it or not we have all believed Cleopatra and the pyramids to be symbols of the same
time period but that’s not true!
When Cleopatra was born in 69BC, the pyramids were already 2,471 years old.
That’s a lot of time gap but now you’d ask why we have brought up the famous fast
food chain here.
Well, the first McDonald’s opened 2024 years after the birth of this Egyptian ruler!
In comparison, the interesting historical character was closer to a symbol of modern
life that she is to the historical symbol of her dynasty!
Number 3.
Time traveling flights What would be your reaction if we told you
that some people were able to see the clock tick 12 to welcome 2018, TWICE?
A Hawaiian flight HA446 took off at 12:05am on January 1, 2018 from Auckland and landed
in Honolulu on December 31, 2017 at 10:16 am!
That’s an interesting way to time travel, just catch a flight and voila, you get to
live an extra day in the same year!
That’s a cool way to cover up the fault of time zones but the idea of time traveling
is surely exciting.
So how many of you are planning to try it this year?
Number 2.
Queen Elizabeth II has seen 16 different US Presidents in office
Would you believe us if we told you that the Queen of UK has reigned for the past 66 years?
Wow, that’s a lot of throne time!
Keeping this in mind it would be comparatively easy to digest the fact that the oval office
has seen 16 different US Presidents after she was born!
Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 when Calvin Coolidge was the president of the US.
Since then, there have been 15 successors.
The 91 year old Queen is the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch as well
as the world's longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state.
She was crowned in 1953 and in 2017, became the first British monarch to reach a Sapphire
Jubilee.
Wow!
Number 1.
If the history of earth is summed in a year, humans would appear on the last day
Do you know that Earth was formed about four and a half billion years ago and complex life,
like animals and plants appeared about 550 million years ago?
Yea people, so much time has elapsed!
If looking at the huge length of geological time becoming tough for you to understand,
let’s squeeze the entire Earth history into one year.
Now going on that scale, keeping the formation of Earth and solar system on January 1, the
first tetrapods appeared on the first day of December!
Dinosaurs died on 26th December and humans entered the scene on the last day of December
at 11:35 pm.
Yea people, so recent is the human history as compared to that of the planet!
Which of these facts changed your idea about the timeline of history?
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