Time isn’t linear—it’s a chaotic mashup of ancient math and cosmic rules. Blame the Sumerians: their 60-base system (sexagesimal) gave us 60 minutes, 24 hours, and leap years. February’s 28/29-day flip? A 2,000-year-old hack to sync calendars with Earth’s orbit.

Sort of. He called time “a number of movement,” arguing it’s tied to change. But his “infinite time” theory clashed with reality—like how your GPS uses Einstein’s relativity, not Aristotle’s philosophy, to nail directions.

Newton said time is absolute (like a cosmic metronome). Leibniz called it a human construct. Einstein settled the debate: time bends. Your watch ticks slower on a rocket than on Earth. Atomic clocks prove it.

Egyptians split daylight into 12 parts with sundials, 12 parts for stars at night. Greeks later fixed the 24-hour equinox system. It stuck because 60-base math splits time into tidy chunks (1 hour ÷ 6 = 10 minutes—try that with decimal!).

Einstein’s relativity says yes —in theory. Move near light-speed, and time slows. But quantum physicists are still arguing. Bottom line: Your calendar’s Gregorian rules are outdated. Modern tech? It’s all about spacetime.

Not just “1 Mississippi.” A second is 9,192,631,770 vibrations of a cesium atom. Atomic clocks use this to stay accurate. Why cesium? Its resonance is so stable, it’d take 100 million years to drift by a second.

Water in a spinning bucket curves—even if the bucket stops. Newton said it’s rotating relative to “absolute space.” Einstein upgraded this: It’s all about spacetime geodesics. Your coffee? It’s obeying general relativity.

Ancient hacks! Oil lamps tracked events, not hours. Water clocks (clepsydras) leaked but were the most accurate until pendulums arrived. Today’s atomic clocks? They’re just… better .

Sumerians loved 60—it’s divisible by 12 numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Perfect for splitting hours into minutes, circles into degrees. Pizza math: 60 ÷ 3 = 20. Easy.

Quantum mechanics says… maybe. Time might not even exist. But until then, GPS, satellites, and atomic clocks rely on his theories. Newton lasted 200 years. Einstein? The clock’s ticking.