A new video? It's about time! No, really. It's about time. Hope you enjoyed the history of how we keep time! Leave a comment and let us know what you think ⏰

@brookiecookie472

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart I get it

@pvpingwithasif6471

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart cringe

@mr.dr.genius2169

6 жыл бұрын

Well,it realy was about time for a video about time.

@rishi2837

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart its damn good thanks for clearing my doubts

@andreidelacruz3381

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart finally a new video...please upload more...

Finger joints and minute is the same word in Hungarian

@federicon.5085

6 жыл бұрын

really? what´s the hungarian word?

6 жыл бұрын

Federico N. Perc

@federicon.5085

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@durdleduc8520

6 жыл бұрын

Ooooooo~

6 жыл бұрын

Anja Aleskari hahah yes

2:06. Splitting the circle into 360 degrees wasn’t “very random.” They did so because of how easily it divides into half’s, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, ninths and tenths without breaking into any long complicated decimal fractions

@FebruaryHas30Days

4 ай бұрын

If it was divided into 2520 then it could be easily divided into all of those, including SEVENTHS.

>very random 360 "degrees" It's not random at all. It's 60 × 6, *and* a Highly Composite Number (meaning it has more divisors than any number smaller than it) Why 60? Because it's *also* a Highly Composite Number. The same goes for 12 and 24. We're not using these numbers for no good reason; it's because they're easy to break up.

@nettlesoup

6 жыл бұрын

109Rage Thank you. I am often surprised how few people make this connection. There are 12 divisors of 60 but only 9 divisors of 100; similarly, there are 24 divisors of 360 but only 16 divisors of 1000. Pretty clear how advantageous these numbers are in subdivision of time, work, angles, etc.

@TazPessle

6 жыл бұрын

its a damn shame we have 10 fingers really. If we had twelve and decimal counting never arose we'd all have easier maths and all these silly twevles would be written '10' and sixty as '50'.

@besmart

6 жыл бұрын

Great point that they're conveniently composite numbers. But that does not imply that 12, 24, 60, etc. were chosen *because* they were easy to use. It could just be a coincidence, or the accidental result of the Greeks mashing several cultures together. Just because something is useful or convenient in the end doesn't mean that there was forethought or logic behind its selection. For instance, the Egyptians' selection of 12 night hours and 12 day hours seems to be as much about superstition and mythology as it was about mathematical convenience. That being said, if you know of a source that shows there was more to it, I'd love to see!

@TazPessle

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart lack of forethought granted. But the *practicality* is less likely to be random. It's hardly random that people developed decimal systems for counting (fingers) and hardly random that they picked dodecimal for reckoning.

@nettlesoup

6 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart Why does there have to be a source? To anyone in ancient history who had even a basic knowledge of numbers and the practicalities of clean subdivision, these clearly have advantages. If it were truly random then surely some civilisations would have chosen to subdivide the day by 7 hours (prime), or by 21 (easily dividable by both 3 *and* 7). Maybe they tried, but there's a reason that didn't catch on.

*Time is a fidget spinner that never stops.*

@swagminer4205

6 жыл бұрын

stop

@crob3545

6 жыл бұрын

SwagMiner420. change ur name

@AlexaAXAG

6 жыл бұрын

I cannot disagree with this.

@swagminer4205

6 жыл бұрын

NEVER!!! Minecraft and weed 4 lyfe!!

@joshua6e925

6 жыл бұрын

deep af 😅

The vsauce reference..😂😂😂

@ricardoalves9605

6 жыл бұрын

9m34 fa4991 It was more a pun to the watch, "thanks for WATCHing", but maybe its both

@alexwohlgemuth4099

4 жыл бұрын

Ricardo alves - it's definately a reference. At the end of every video vsauce says "And as always, thanks for watching."

Perhaps you could make a video explaining why time, in physics, is considered a real thing, and not only something we created to measure the accumulation of changes in the three-dimensional space. 👍

@AlejandroFernandez-mq3jl

6 жыл бұрын

L Galicki Band because those changes have to happen in another dimension which is time, and not only the perception we get from it. Also general relativity works based on this Minkowsky's model of dimensions.

@the1exnay

6 жыл бұрын

Gravity only makes sense as distortions in 4D spacetime, distortions in 3D space would behave very differently. Also it operates identical to the other dimensions except that you are stuck going 1 direction through it, which prevents rotating objects through 4 dimensional spacetime like you can through 3D space. And when you go to the smallest scales and smallest times, smaller than the planck length or time then you find that movement through space is as inevitable and constant (every elementary particle moving at C, no faster and no slower) as movement through time.

@calebr7199

6 жыл бұрын

We know this because time doesn't run the same speed everywhere. Depending on how many Gs you are experiencing and how fast you are going time can actually slow down relative to other places. This is called time dilation and for example astronauts on the ISS age slightly slower than we do here on earth. I even found a letter by a NASA astronaut explaining why that is in case you're interested spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_letter13.html

@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs

6 жыл бұрын

Orange Boy Well, one could argue the speed of change in matter and energy slows down when they're under the influence of a strong gravity well, eh!?

@seancarroll9849

6 жыл бұрын

That's only if you use inertial frames of reference. It get murky the second you explore anything in space-time; to an outside observer, you going close to the speed of light will have effectively been a month's worth of travel from their perspective. When it was only perhaps maybe a day or two from your perspective...You effectively accomplished time travel, just in a very cheeky way. This is why I love theoretical physics; weird stuff can, and does, happen.

360 is not random it is a number with a high factors to value ratio.

@CheCheDaWaff

6 жыл бұрын

It is also how many days it was believed a year had.

@gabemerritt3139

6 жыл бұрын

12 and 60 also have many factors, it definitely wasn't random

@extropian314

6 жыл бұрын

Modus Ponens Heh no.

Numbers like 12, 24, 60, and 360 are not "random" or "why not" numbers. They are all Highly Composite Numbers, having properties that make them perfect for the sort of tasks they were chosen for. This wasn't "just how it happened", it was very intentional and makes a serene sort of sense. Often referred to as "highly divisible numbers" or "antiprimes", there are some great videos out there that shed light on this subject. I don't know about you, but I'm glad numbers like 12, 24, 60, and 360 were selected over numbers like 5040.

Even the title is confusing

@whaynegonzaless

4 жыл бұрын

BonfireJoe hahahahaha

"as always, thanks for watching" ... wait a second... you're watching V-Sauce?!?!

@dragoncurveenthusiast

6 жыл бұрын

The "thanks for watching" is ok, but the "As always" is just not true for THIS channel.

@leFoodeater

6 жыл бұрын

who doesn't?

@vacatiolibertas

6 жыл бұрын

But are you really watching Vsauce?(music starts)

@TheDuffman1812

6 жыл бұрын

because other people can't use a phrase. smdh

Why It Is What Time It Is Because It Is Time

@ProducerGio

6 жыл бұрын

why is time being timed by timers because it is what time it is being timed

@ethanchou4906

6 жыл бұрын

I'm using my time to time time and timing time.

@OverskilLFull

5 жыл бұрын

u just watched dhmis ; time

@czyruszamora5309

5 жыл бұрын

Time and space are bestfriends

Sorry I'm late my dudes... I actually took the time to watch the video before commenting.

360 degrees and 60 minutes, 24 hours etc. make a lot of sense. They are highly devisble. 12 can be devided by 2,3,4 and 6, 24 by 2,3,4,6 and 8 etc. Our modern way makes no sense. Yeah we have 10 fingers(but 12 joints on each hand so whatever), but you can only devide it by 5 and 2. devisibility helps a lot in every day math

"Thanks for watch-ing" I started laughing like a maniac, then you point out the obvious pun and I lost it. Great video.

How timely!

I love the Monty Python themed animated hands 👌👏

@farhanmahalludin

3 жыл бұрын

Man thought I was the only one got the MP feel to it

TL:DR verion... Because Britain bloody well said so.

@tomasmorales814

6 жыл бұрын

Jim Riven not even close buddy

@DeborahFishburn

6 жыл бұрын

And they had the good maps...

@Draktand01

6 жыл бұрын

+DeborahFishburn Details... Just details

@Hayds126

6 жыл бұрын

Tomas Morales eh close enough

@impalabeeper

6 жыл бұрын

Britain was the leading industrial and scientific power so why not.

I love this subject. How time is tracked is one of my favorite mundane subjects to talk about. Great video. Keep up the good work.

Can watch these videos all days longg...they are so interesting yet full of knowledge.

Last time i was this early, the french wanted a decimal day to be universal

@besmart

6 жыл бұрын

WELL PLAYED

@PersianMapper

6 жыл бұрын

-WOW IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART ACTUALLY REPLIED TO ME!!!!- thanks ;)

Anyone else had noticed that outro is from VSauce?

@PrnvP23

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't quite catch it, what are you referring to?

@Ali107

6 жыл бұрын

"and as always, Thanks for watching...." outro is from the channel VSauce

I love watching these videos so much! Even though I’m a noob when it comes to science things, this is still very interesting to watch and you learn so much from it. Probs to you!❤️

This was great! I appreciate the destination between nature and machine.

Everyone steal from the babylonians !!! Lol

@vvvvveroeverythingtodo

6 жыл бұрын

Cultural apropiation LOL

@ilirberisha1745

6 жыл бұрын

They steal from Sumerians😉😉

@NewspeakMedia

5 жыл бұрын

What are you a, racist babyloniphobe?

@muhammadelsayed6501

5 жыл бұрын

its a myth.. no one stole from Babylonians :)

@mistertea5515

5 жыл бұрын

They coined the term adopting which really means taking what's not theirs.

You know what time it is... IT’S HIGH NOON!!!

@voqxnn

6 жыл бұрын

Lukas Hellström RAWWWWW

This just answered every burning question I've had about time. Thank you

Thanks for the amazing video once again! Love them all!

You missed the contribution of a Canadian, Sir Sanford Fleming, who gave us the 24 Time Zones of the world that we use today!

@Kat-PM

6 жыл бұрын

Rod Burden He briefly mentioned the time zones but didn't want to go into that in this video.

I always assumed the usage of 12 and 60 were due to the number of ways they can be divided. Though we rarely use most of them, we could break an hour down into even halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, tenths, twelfths, fifteenths, twentieths, and thirtieths; and into even more divisions with simple half- or quarter-minutes. It's the same reason the US still uses feet and yards in most construction projects. An inch is divided into sixteenths, a foot is divided into 12 inches, a yard is 3 feet, and you have many, many, MANY ways to evenly divide a yard into numerous units. How do you accurately measure a third of a meter?

@azzuron7694

6 жыл бұрын

33,333cm but you propably dont have such an accurate thing to measure that anyway. so just use electronics with 1/3 m

@mahmoudsharabati6525

6 жыл бұрын

this explains much

@RamzaBeoulves

6 жыл бұрын

The same way you measure 7 inches. With tools.

@sion8

6 жыл бұрын

That's a plus for dozenal numbers, but construction requires accuracy! No matter what you're goingto need some sort of ruler to measure if some did the work rightand not by eye. A third of a meter accurately will be 0.3333³³³³(…) m but in reality 33.33 cm will do.

@ricardoalves9605

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Just say 1/3 of a meter, its still easy to multiply by 10, way harder on imperial How many feets in 1264 inches? Who Cares How many metters in 1264cm? 12.64

I love old large mechanical clocks. One in Seattle WA has a little note in its history about how the weight had to be adjusted when it was moved, because it was sensitive enough to pick up on the difference in gravity between the two locations due to elevation change.

All of my questions in life are answered by this channel

What exactly is *time* ? What is anything without time? How did it come to be? *vsauce music plays*

This was the hardest time I've ever had trying to read a title..

that last part, got me of guard. amazing video once again

How about an episode explaining time zones, and when we realized that they existed ! I've always wondered time difference was discovered :) love your channel !

I get so angry when people say time doesn't exist.

Don't drag the duodecimal system, Numberphile will come for you

Very interesting and I appreciate the light humor.

I agree with your views. I truly often wonder if time is actually as vital as we think it is or just a method we created to discipline ourselves.

He remind me of the main male characters in the Disney movie the lost empire of Atlantis who agree

The only time I know is Sunday because Dragon Ball Super airs on Sunday!

@steveletterman7121

6 жыл бұрын

SinsiliuxS hahaha it is kinda true our lord and savior mr satan turned super saiyan but not blue i'll not spoil the rest for you discover it yourself

@steveletterman7121

6 жыл бұрын

SinsiliuxS yes and he's still just a human, you know how dragon ball likes to throw some 'jokes' here and there

@GojaGossip

6 жыл бұрын

SinsiliuxS I am super duper saiyan insayan god what are you talking about?

@Tubeytime

6 жыл бұрын

I hate what they're doing, they're diminishing the value that super saiyan used to hold by undermining it with ever-increasing levels of absurdity. Take anything too far and you'll ruin it, that's just the way it is.

@Tubeytime

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It wasn't just super saiyan, it was LEGENDARY super saiyan. Now it's basically a joke compared to these new power levels.

Cool segment. Disconnecting time and therefore us from nature in favor of machines also had negative side effects such as lack of sleep and consequent stress. Entropy is a key aspect too...and knowing that time and space are connected. Also, time is relative as Einstein taught us. This was beautifully illustrated in the movie Interstellar. Brian Cox also had a beautiful and intensive documentary on this too

Your videos are very easy to understand and fascinating plus fun.

*ain't nobody got time for this!!!!!*

And as always, thanks for watching WAIT WHY COLLAB? “Watching” OH I GET IT IT WAS A PUN, BUT WHERE IS STA- “Stay curious” FUUUUU

I love your channel. Keep it up the awesome work

This is actually pretty mindblowing... Cool and enlightening video - it has sparked an interest in me to find out more!

Regarding the subdivision of the circle: The Sumerians were the first ones to divide the circle into 360 degrees around 2400BC. Later, we got the 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes from the Babylonians, who for some reason used a base 60 numerical system(compared with our current base 10).

"You're a time lord harry"

@BioniclesaurKing4t2

6 жыл бұрын

Said Captain Kirk.

@PersianMapper

6 жыл бұрын

wat? i don't get the reference

@BioniclesaurKing4t2

6 жыл бұрын

There's a meme category based on "'Use the Force, Harry,' said Gandalf" that goes out of its way to mix as many sci-fi and fantasy references into one as it can.

I just love it when he says ‘say curious’ !

@ameerhamza4816

5 жыл бұрын

He said "stay curious" not "say curious"

thanks iotbs! i finally know now who or invented time or clock time. great!

STOP! Hammer time

i guess it's "Time" to watch it in 2.0x speed to be the first one to finish it!

@PersianMapper

6 жыл бұрын

(that pun was horrible wasn't it?)

@bagandtag4391

6 жыл бұрын

GODSTINY

Dude.... you're awesome! I have become SMARTER thanks to you... keep up the great work.

Finally. Someone is answering the important questions!

God made 7 days. Then he named them after 7 other gods.

@robertt9342

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Hatch well that was certainly nice of him.

@annawing770

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe he owed them money and hoped they would accept days instead.

@jdog5642

4 жыл бұрын

God didn't name the days

Question : why do most roman numeral clocks have IIII as 4 instead of IV?

@BioniclesaurKing4t2

6 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a single clock with IIII.

@Timelog88

6 жыл бұрын

Google search it. They really exist. Though not sure if most of them have it.

@fgvcosmic6752

6 жыл бұрын

Cause the makers dont know how to use roman numerals

@DuchAmagi

6 жыл бұрын

Mainly symmetrical (aesthetical) reasons, when you use IIII instead of IV you will receive 4 numbers made just of "I" (I, II, III, IIII), 4 numbers made of "I" and "V" (V, VI, VII, VIII) and 4 numbers made of "I" and "X" (IX, X, XI, XII).

@viquezug3936

6 жыл бұрын

I believe it is to avoid possible confusion between IV and VI, although DuchAmagi's idea makes sense.

The choice of 360, 60, 24, 12 etc and placing them on a circle wasn't 'random', it was done from a mathematical standpoint, because 360, 60, 24 and 12 all have a lot of denominators. You can devide 360 by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... there's a video on it on the numberphile channel, but I can't seem to find it right now

@mattiles5811

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Hunt it’s mathematically random is the point... no reason to choose 360 over 174... from a practical point I agree 360 is better but from a pure mathematical pov (as in pure mathematics) it is random. That’s why people got sick of degrees and invented radians etc

a person can describe...more personal experiences that they understand how the whole way can go through so much attention to how they see it move forward

I understood half of the video

@baraa8555

6 жыл бұрын

Quartzy I understood quarter of it

@baraa8555

6 жыл бұрын

Wait a *second* that sounds like a pun about time...

@Trex-or6cd

6 жыл бұрын

How is this complecated? 5 year old could watch this video and anderstand it

@quartzy412

6 жыл бұрын

t rex expert You sure?

@quartzy412

6 жыл бұрын

Baraa tk aka BRUH lol

JOE, WE GET IT! STOP WITH ALL THE PUNS!

Watching in 2020. Trying to get a SME level of understanding in timing (from origins to state of the art), this was a elementary but perfect video to get me started! Hey! We wear the same watch! Citizen Eco-Drive WR100!

No. quartz crystals do not vibrate 32768 times each second. Their frequency depends on their size and shape and the temperature (slightly). 32768 is just a nice power of 2 and an extremely low number for a crystal. Thus a crystal is cut to a high and specific frequency (precision equals price) and that number is divided to a reasonable number.

Do a video on the future of warfare.

@jarv7441

6 жыл бұрын

WAR NEVER CHANGES

@BryonLetterman

6 жыл бұрын

Matt Kid that's not really the kind of thing thing that this channel is about

Hypothetically what if someone in India goes to space in the same hour of the same day as Someone in America who goes to space. In space they float to eachtother and share the time it is for them individually. There would be confusion there wouldnt there?

Just the sigh when you mentioned timezones is worth a like. As a programmer I loath timezones.

*That title had me go whaa??* followed by me saying out loud "she sells sea shells by the seashore..." and other random tongue twisters!

yet we still have churches which make annoying loud bell-sound. never get an apartment near a church except if you love the sound, i personally hate it and i have to move soon because its annoying af, ever 15minutes not so loud but 3 times a day very loud and 4 minutes of loud annoying bell sound. horrible.

360 degrees don't make much sense? but base 10 does? what is this nonsense! try using 10 hours a day or 100 degrees in a circle. base 360 ftw!

@MarioFanGamer659

6 жыл бұрын

Only because you have been taught for it. If humans used 10 hours a day or 100 degrees in a circle (or any multiples of them) then we would have been using that.

@ethanwagner6418

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarioFanGamer659 base 10 measuring is only convenient because our counting system is base 10. It would be simpler if both our counting system and measuring system were based on highly composites. In a sense, the inventors of the customary system were ingenious.

Great sir! Watched your video for first time , shocked to know that someone sees the nature and science in that way.

Random person:what time is it? Me: *fish*

What is your IQ?

@besmart

6 жыл бұрын

It's at least 42

@ricardoalves9605

6 жыл бұрын

Z sheesh I watch Rick and Morty so its prety high (Sarcasm)

@wholeNwon

6 жыл бұрын

So, now we finally know what that damn question was!

@Jordan_Dossou

6 жыл бұрын

Z sheesh lol

That first part is flipping TRIPPY!!!!

Love the last part. That move fooled me. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂😍💕

Regarding the 24-60-60 division for hours, minutes, and seconds, I once came up with 24-64-64, which in base 8 is 30-100-100 or 18-40-40 in base 16; great for worldbuilding with a power of 2 as a base. Side note: 24-60-60 in base 12 is 20-50-50; I've seen 24-72-72 (20-60-60 in base 12) be proposed, but I've personally grown fond with powers of 2 because computers.

@theeternal6890

2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to create system purely based on metric system like 10-100-100 or even better which is not difficult to convert from-to current 24-60-60

@FebruaryHas30Days

4 ай бұрын

I suggest dividing the day into 16 hours, each hour into 64 minutes, each minute into 64 seconds, and each second into 4 ticks.

Its really worth watching

Love the new animation!! great new video. thank you.

And in Providence, RI the Ladd Observatory would do sidereal observation and send a pulse to jewelers, fire stations etc. to mark the time increment. Fascinating in that it was the precursor to NTP or Network Time Protocol.

This answered a far different question than I expected

The beginning is hysterical

The joke at the end is hilarious as always.

I have always wondered. I may be feeling the time because I have time to feel it.

I love these videos!

This should be on trending

Love you guys!

Answered so many questions answered

360 isn't random, it's the number in it's range with the most whole divisors. As far as dividing something goes, 360 is a very smart choice.

Your content is awesome

Base 60 can be split into groups of 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2. Compared that to 100, which only has 50, 25, 10, 5, 4 and 2. So, 60 is better for breaking things into groups. Also 12 has 6, 4, 3, and 2 and is why a dozen is special. Also twelve is the last one word counting name before we get to the teens. Math is fun

I know that your video was meant to remain short, but taking another 30-40 seconds to explain the 24/60/60 cycle would have added a great deal of the video to me. Props for mentioning the Babylonian/Sumarian origins, but these numbers were not arbitrary; they did indeed correspond to the number of bones in one's hand. I feel that this is an important part of the rationalised temporal equation, and I would have enjoyed seeing it in this video.

I was told that ancient civilisations used base 12 number system because it was easier to divide 12 into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 , 1/6 and with base 60 (or 360) you also have 1/5, 1/9, 1/10. It made trade and commerce much easier to calculate. Easier to divide items by weight like weight as an example. The 365 days in a year (close to 360) may have also influenced using the number system by being able to divide the year into seasons to for planting etc.

I really enjoyed watching the video! Do you guys know anything about how Japanese people measured time back in the days with the clock called wa-dokei? It would be nice to know about other "times" in other countries! (and I'm having a hard time understanding how those old Japanese clocks worked....I went to the museum, but ahhh it was so difficult)

Using numbers like 12, 24, 60 and 360 isn't arbitrary. At least not from a mathematical point of view. Mathematicians prefer those numbers because they have many factors (divisors). As you said they already used used those when dividing circles and because they measured time in (semi) circles, it's logical they used the same numbers. Even without the need of circles to measure time these numbers still are practical. As, as you said, time was created to plan and organize things it's pretty handy to be able to devide time in even parts. Preferably in as many different ways as possible. 24 hours can be divided in even parts in 6 different ways. Either 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 even parts. While for example, if the day would have been divided in 20 hours it could only be divided up in even parts in 4 ways (2, 4, 5, or 10 part). 60 minutes has 10 divisors (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30). If they had chosen 100 (as some decimal/metric extremists around the French revolution wanted) it would have only had 7 (2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, or 50).

It was time to go to work but then I saw this video was uploaded

Well is about time we get this topic

The scientist Ryan Higa, these puns are gold!

My god Joe, your puns are so funny. My dad has used puns like that my whole life, every time you say a pun I run to show him. A) so he can appreciate a good pun and B) so he can see how annoying random puns out of nowhere feel lol. Either way I love your jokes and they make the video even more fun to watch 👍😊

Amazing video

Awesome video! I've heard that people have tried to make clocks and time more logical by making an hour 100minutes and a day 10 hours etc.. Apparently this does not work though, would be cool if you guys did a video about it :)