Time

4) Was there really a big bang? Yes there was.   5) What light elements seem to support the Big Bang Theory? Hydrogen and Helium **Time keeps on slippin'** 1)The calendar that most of the world accepts is the Georgian Calendar. It was made by Pope Gregory and it was accepted because as the international trade increased it was easier to use the same calendar. 2) A year containing one extra day making a month have 29 days instead of having 28. 3) Julian Calendar - day, month, year, similar to the Georgian Calendar. Islamic Calendar - Lunar Persian Calendar - Solar 4) BC means Before Christ 5) BCE means Before Common Era 6) AD means Anno Domini 7) CE means Common Era 8) MYA means "million years ago" ex. 65 MYA means 65 million years ago 9) Big Bang 14000 MYA, Formation of Earth 4600 MYA, Cambrian 543-490 MYA, Permian 290-248 MYA, Mesozoic 245-65 MYA, Stone Age 5 MYA - 2500 BC, Ice Age 70000 - 8000 BC, Neolithic 9000 - 4500 BC, Bronze Age 3200 - 1200 BC, Hellenistic 332 - 63 BC, Roman Period 63 BC - 476, Byzantine 330 - 1453, Middle Ages 476 - 1350, Renaissance 1350 - 1600, Reformation 1500 - 1600, Enlightment 1600 - 1800, Industrial Revolution 1750 - 1900, 20th Century 1900 - 2000, 21st Century 2000 - 2099, Future 2011+ There are 21 periods of time. 10) Eon - "forever" is half a billion years or more Era - several hundred million years Epoch - tens of millions of years Age - millions of years 11) Egyptian calendar, Hittites Calendar, Babylonian calendar 12) Sun Clock – It casts a shadow that shows whether it was morning or afternoon. Water Clock - Water dripped into bowls, when the water reached markings on the bowl that told how many hours had passed. 13) Pendulum clocks and quartz crystals revolutionized timekeeping 14) Quartz crystals allow for accurate timekeeping 15) Time zones are regions of Earth more or less bound by lines of longitude, one hour differs between neighboring time zones. 16) The line longitude at 0 degrees, it divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemisphere. 17) Regina - It would be 10:00 AM Toronto - Iit would be11:00AM London - It would be 4:00PM Moscow - It would be 7:00PM Tokyo - It would be 1:00AM Hawaii - It would be 6:00AM 18) Also known as Summer Time, 19) No, the Georgian Calendar starts at the year 1. 20) The new decade started January 1, 2011 21) Time never ends, its continuous 22) Time is in a cycle
 * Big Bang Theory﻿** 1) About how long ago did the big bang take place? 13.7 billion years ago 2) What is a black hole? Black holes are areas of intense gravittional pressure. The pressure can be so intense that stuff can be actually squished into inifinite denisty.   3) Does the universe continue to expand?  Yes it does.