Bill Nye: *mumbling to himself* Time... essence of existence... *wanders across random border*
Clockclaw: Who are you?!
Bill Nye: *looks up abruptly* Huh?
Clockclaw: You, mumbling about random things. Why are you here?
Bill Nye: *looks around in confusion* I have no idea. Where am I?
Clockclaw: You crossed the TimeClan border.
Bill Nye: *shrugs* Oops. *thinks for a moment* Well, while I'm here, I might as well learn a bit about time.
Clockclaw: *ears perk* Ohh! I can help with that! Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
Bill Nye: *scribbles information down on a clipboard* Interesting, interesting.
Clockclaw: Eternitystar and our elders Hourpelt, Minutefur, and Secondtail can tell you more. Want to come back to camp with me?
Bill Nye: Sure! I love learning new things. *Follows Clockclaw into their camp* Now, who to visit first?
Foreverfoot: Hi there!
Bill Nye: Hello, do you know where I could find Etern-
Foreverfoot: I'm the deputy of TimeClan!
Bill Nye: That's nice but-
Foreverfoot: I can help teach you about time!
Bill Nye: Um... but—
Foreverfoot: Time has long been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without specific indication to one has consistently eluded scholars.
Bill Nye: Well then... what?
Foreverfoot: *continues blabbering* Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporate some notion of time into their respective measuring systems.
Bill Nye: That's nice but—
Foreverfoot: Originally the second was defined as 1/86,400 of the mean solar day, which is the year-average of the solar day, being the time interval between two successive noons, i.e., the time interval between two successive passages of the sun across the meridian. In 1874 the British Association for the Advancement of Science introduced the CGS (centimeter/gram/second system) combining fundamental units of length, mass and time.
Bill Nye: Err... I think I'll just go now. *bolts out of camp*
Foreverfoot: *doesn't notice Bill Nye's disappearance* While in theory, the concept of a single worldwide universal time-scale may have been conceived of many centuries ago, in practicality the technical ability to create and maintain such a time-scale did not become possible until the mid-19th century. The timescale adopted was Greenwich Mean Time, created in 1847. A few countries have replaced it with Coordinated Universal Time, UTC.
Eternitystar: *appears from nowhere* I heard we had a guest! *sees Foreverfoot rambling* *sighs* Oh no, not again!
{HALLO! Feather wrote this. Yay. Hope you enjoyed!}
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Bill Nye the Science Kitty
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