Relative Timescale

Time is something that everyone seems to treasure, it's something that allows people to get things done. We all need time whether we are having fun or doing work. It's something to take stress off of us, but what is time exactly. Seconds, minutes, hours, are all synthetic. Time is something man made on a scale that everyone can base their own relative clocks on. We all have relative clocks that run based on what ever they happen to run on, this is the reason for the difference in people's reflexes. They perceive time slower and are able to react faster. Although the difference between people isn't much it can make differences. Although time isn't exactly something that only animals can sense. 

According to some studies plants also have a "sense of time". If one were to observe plant growth you would notice that the plants grow based on their surroundings. Vines tend to feel around and then latch onto objects after they have determined that a safe object is there. Although this takes months of time. the perception of time in the eyes of plants differs from our own dramatically. Although the time I'm talking about now is only relative to the earth.

Gravity plays a massive role in time. You may or may not have heard of it but the more force gravity exerts, the slower time becomes. There is a famous experiment where two clocks which are in perfect sync are placed at different elevations. After a long period of time, the higher one starts running faster than the slower one only by a bit, but the difference becomes noticeable. The more gravity there is the slower time gets. If you are close to Jupiter or even inside, time will run slower for you than on earth, same with any kind of large celestial body. Black holes included. 

I hope to get these kind of posts out early every week or so. If I can't due to time restraints, than I might skip it or post later in the week. These posts will be me blabbering on and branching out further and further from the actual topic. It's kind of like surfing the web and clicking links, except it's all in my head. Topic for next week will probably be black holes. If you want to suggest anything you can leave a comment. No guarantee I'll chose your comment but it's worth posting it. I might get inspired.