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God, help me see others as you see them, and have a heart for them.
Alice’s prayer today.

Children’s story —
A clock and his adventures with Alice in China.
The clock cannot resist a bit of tomfoolery and trickery.
Racing with the sun and the moon, going around the curves of the world at breakneck speed.

The use of Wo Ai Nee needs to be in the story. Grandma Emily?
The idea of numbers — and what they can do about the clock…History of time?

The measurement of time has also occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in astronomy. Time is also a matter of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money“) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in our lives. Units of time have been agreed upon to quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them. Regularly recurring events and objects with apparent periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time. Examples are the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, and the swing of a pendulum.

Time has historically been closely related with space, most obviously with spacetime in Einstein’s General Relativity.

Definitions

Many ancient philosophers wrote lengthy essays on time, believing it to be the essence around which life was based. A famous analogy was one that compares the time of life to the passing of sand through an hourglass. The sand at the top is the future, and, one tiny grain at a time, the future flows through the present into the past. The past ever expanding, the future ever decreasing, but the future grains being moulded into the past through the present. This was widely discussed in around the 3rd century CE.

Psychology

Different people may judge identical lengths of time quite differently. Time can “fly”; that is, a long period of time can seem to go by very quickly. Likewise, time can seem to “drag,” as in when one performs a boring task. The psychologist Jean Piaget called this form of time perception “lived time.”

Time also appears to pass more quickly as one gets older. For example, a day for a child seems to last longer than a day for an adult. ^{[citation needed]} One possible reason for this is that with increasing age, each segment of time is a decreasing percentage of the person’s total experience.

Altered states of consciousness are sometimes characterised by a different estimation of time. Some psychoactive substances–such as entheogens–may also dramatically alter a person’s temporal judgement.

In explaining his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that although sitting next to a pretty girl for an hour feels like a minute, placing one’s hand on a hot stove for a minute feels like an hour. This is intended to introduce the listener to the concept of the interval between two events being perceived differently by different observers.

The use of time is an important issue in understanding human behaviour, education, and travel behaviour. Time use research is a developing field of study. The question concerns how time is allocated across a number of activities (such as time spent at home, at work, shopping, etc.). Time use changes with technology, as the television or the Internet created new opportunities to use time in different ways. However, some aspects of time use are relatively stable over long periods of time, such as the amount of time spent traveling to work, which despite major changes in transport, has been observed to be about 20-30 minutes one-way for a large number of cities over a long period of time. This has led to the disputed time budget hypothesis.

Hmmmm