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The hypothesis of 25
Somewhere out there in the big olde world of ours, someone decided to study what a person would begin to be like if they wern't on a 24 hour timed day
That study turned up some results that showed a person's body will being to convert to a 25 hour day, given no measure of time to compute through actual thinking. THAT, ties into circadian rhythms. point of this thread - why 25 hours? hypothesis, we as humans are lazy. How i come about that. through life we learn math, our system of numbers being base ten. the base ten has the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 0 the number 25, is a multiple of 5, 5 being one of the easiest numbers ever. Why? let's look at all the numbers the number 1, is the most complex of numbers out there. reason being, 1 goes into each and every last number. 1,2,3,4,5.... continuing on in sequence. the number 2, half as complex (get it). hitting all the even numbers in sequence. the number three will hit all of the numbers,3,6,9 then continuing into double digits wil hit 2 5 8 1 4 7 0 4 will go 4 8 2 6 0, 6: 6 2 8 4 0 7: 7 4 1 8 5 2 9 6 3 0 8: 8 6 4 2 0 9: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 getting to 5, the smiplest of numbers 5: 5 0 the brain only has to worry about two things. Easy no? what about ten you ask? first, 10 is two digits in its own right, starting something completly new. second, 10 will hit all the first numbers in its second digit, being even more complexe than 1. second reason we as humans are lazy. 25 is the closest coresponding whole number to 24, besides 23, but that number is too complex. Forget even trying to get the brain to enterperate 24.5, that THREE WHOLE NUMBERS!!! |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
This whole thing makes no sense whatsoever.
The reasoning we have a 24 hour day is that the Earth rotates on its axis aproximately once every 24 hours (23 hours and 56 minutes, hence leap years and stuff). It would also appear that over time our bodies have adjusted to being awake for 16 hours and asleep for 8. If we had 25 hours, then each hour would be shorter, or the entire system of our calendar would go to shit. Read up on some basic Astronomy, because I don't feel like explaining this any more complexly. |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
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2) Five does the same thing you think ten is so "complexe" for every other term in its sequence. This entire argument makes no sense. Why would we throw our entire system of time out the window just so we can calculate hours in multiple days easier? |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
my bad, in the study, the person had no access to clocks, or anything to be related to a 24 hour day. they just lived.
and the study showed that that person's body started to live in a 25 hour day. |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
ok. perhaps that explains why we sleep less for a bunch of days and then sleep alot on weekends. Because we want 25 hour days and not 24.
*shrugs* It doesn't matter, because it won't change. We were forced into a 24 hour day by the way in which the Earth was formed. What should have happened is that we adjusted the length of 1 second slightly so that what we think of as 24 hours is actually 23 hours and 56 minutes. It would get rid of leap years and align the stars in fixed positions each night, as opposed to them shifting slightly every night because they revolve in 23:56 yet we revolve in 24:00. |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
that's not the point
the point is to explain why our bodies would shift to a 25 hour day if not given the constant feeding of a standard time system |
RE: The hypothesis of 25
It has nothing to do with numbers. Our body doesn't care about numbers. Numbers are relative.
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RE: The hypothesis of 25
Haha wow this is bad. The sleep schedule has nothing to do with your body making some stupid interpretation of math, it has to do with the release and agonizing of certain receptors in the brain that are depleted and stimulated during the day. They need to rest and recover. However, depending on how much one generally exerts themselves during the day, anywhere from 24-30 hours is a normal natural sleep rhythm.
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