eli5 I am wondering how the concept of time was first discovered and how? When did human began using “time” in their activities?

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eli5 I am wondering how the concept of time was first discovered and how? When did human began using “time” in their activities?

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Answer 1

I mean as soon as you see something moving and see something moving at different speeds you’d have some idea of “time”. And as soon as you find something that acts periodically meaning it cycles through a defined set of states, you could use one cycle of that machine to measure time.

So you could simply measure activities. Like for example “Morgen” ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgen)) which is German for “morning” is the area that a farmer could idk plough at one morning (probably from sun rise to noon).

So it’s most likely prehistoric that people realized that time could be a useful thing to think about.