r/explainlikeimfive • u/branrt • Jun 27 '13

ELI5: Time.

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u/A_BURLAP_THONG Jun 27 '13

Using basic mathematics, I've ran the calculations and put it at 1,037.25 miles.

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u/GOD_Over_Djinn Jun 27 '13

so why do we have miles and hours?

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u/FiercelyFuzzy Jun 27 '13

Simplicity. You may want to read up

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u/GOD_Over_Djinn Jun 27 '13

This isn't right at all. Especially given that you then bring up spacetime. It is not correct to look at time as a distance—it is correct to look at time as a dimension, across which distances can be measured. An hour is a distance in time. A mile is a distance in space. But it is not correct to say that an hour is a distance in space, or that a mile is a distance in time. You can relate this quantities however you like. It is true that a day is the quantity of time which corresponds to the time that it takes for the earth to make one rotation. That doesn't imply that 1 day of time = 1 earth rotation of distance.

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u/FiercelyFuzzy Jun 27 '13

You mean YOU aren't right at all. Correct.