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Want to be really stunned? Like, of your feet stunned?
Ask them which country is the best country on earth.
You'll be floored...
I made a video that shows 24 hours in 24 minutes on an analog clock, a 24-hour clock, a 12-hour clock, and a second counter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMgrbKDiek
30 yo and tbh not sure I really know how to read it right.
The little (shorter) hand points to the hour, the big (longer) hand points to the minutes. That's pretty much it. And of course the hands move clockwise.
edit: I should also note that for reading the hour, the number the hour hand points to is the number of the hour, but for reading the minutes, each number counts as 5 minutes. There are usually dots between the numbers--each dot is 1 minute. So between the 12 and the 1 is 5 minutes, 1 to 2 is 5 more minutes, so the minute hand pointing to the 2 means 10 minutes after the hour.
Hehe, I remember when my paternal grandparents used an old wall clock to teach me and my sister how to read it.
It took a few hours, then we understood what it said, over time we learned what it actually meant.
I finally had my “aha” moment when someone demonstrated how to use an analogue clock to find north. And the neat thing is, if you already know where north is, you can use the clock to find a rough lat/long too (longitude by number of minutes away from the nearest zone border, latitude by calculating the real difference between north and clock north based on time of year). Of course, this only works with a proper swiss watch; the ones that don’t have a smooth action but tick between demarcated points spend most of their time being wrong.
The poor sods probably think time is quantized. But that's philosophically impossible, because that means time is like frames in a movie, but if time consist of a series of still frames, how do we get from one point in time to the next, and how do particles remember their direction or frequency?
Ergo time must be linear, but that too is philosophically impossible, because that creates problems with infinities. Meaning the theory of time must be incomplete as infinity is considered to be outside the valid range of a physics theory.
So time can be neither quantized or linear, but what other options are there?
I'll just have to acknowledge that just as Socrates realized, all I know is that I know nothing. I'm just very very confused, just like those students are over an old analogue clock.
Our theory of time (more specifically spacetime) is incomplete. Some theory's suggest it is a continuum while others suggest it is quantised. But as this discrepancy applies only at the Planck scale it is somewhat moot to how we experience time: our experience of time is linear and continuous. However clock is necessarily quantised but that is simply because it measures the passage of time in discrete steps. A clock is not time itself.
LOL, why are they stunned to learn this?
Stunned, I tell you!
I just noticed that I don't have any analog clocks in my house. But I think I would like one.
Ok by why does this matter. Most people can't read a sundial either?
We don't really use sundials still. We still use analog clocks though because they're efficient and if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Not only that but Technology Connections got me thinking about analog clocks in a whole new way.
If it's 1:40 and you know you gotta leave in half an hour, you don't need to know that you need to leave at 2:10...just 'when the big hand does half a lap from now'.
It's better for visualizing time, if that makes sense?
I think of it like pizza time, I have this big a slice until something happens or I have to be somewhere or whatever
Most likely more digital then analog clocks these days. I can read analog but I cant remember the last time I needed. Besides the both do the same job but one is quicker and more accessible.
People are really scared of change but just because something is new doesn't mean it's bad.
That depends. People have different brains. If you've got dyscalculia, analog is probably easier.
It's a lot more effort to take down working analog clocks and replace them with digital ones; the analog clocks we've got on towers and all aren't going anywhere.
I don't think it's always a fear of change. Sometimes it's just comfort in the familiar.
Uh... No. The teachers are not stunned. They teach those kids every day. It's you the reader who may or may not be surprised.
I feel like they'd know within days if you made it a phone game...