This is actually an interesting question. How is age handled in a space-age civilization? Someone born on one planet could be 10 while on a different planet they’d be 50 in the same timeframe. What if you spend part of your life on one and the rest on another? It’d be inconvenient to use one planet’s ‘day’ as the standard, as they’d all be different lengths…
You could pick a neutral thing and then denote that as the galactic ‘clock’. We do it as humans to an extent. We use Pulsars to measure distance and time because of the extremely precise rotation times.
One would believe an atomic clock to show the same time in seconds despite the celestial body it orbits. Though, that appears to be a fallacy and begs the question, what about relativity? Two identical atomic clocks would show different times depending on the influence of gravity (like near-lightspeed travel), so does everyone carry a clock around with them?
Or, at least that’s what I remember from physics class.
Either that, or we’d just use UTC, still. Like on the ISS or Mars. Bet you computers in that timeframe would be hard built on earth’s and society’s system.
This is actually an interesting question. How is age handled in a space-age civilization? Someone born on one planet could be 10 while on a different planet they’d be 50 in the same timeframe. What if you spend part of your life on one and the rest on another? It’d be inconvenient to use one planet’s ‘day’ as the standard, as they’d all be different lengths…
You count time in semi-arbitrary “stardates” instead.
In Star Wars, a Galactic Standard Year corresponded to the time it took Coruscant to orbit it’s star once, 368 standard days.
You can tell it’s a crazy sci-fi galaxy because the year is 3 days longer than ours. They really went wild with these ideas sometimes.
I mean, many people don’t consider it sci-fi anyway, so,
Hahahahha
What, laser-sword welding space wizards weren’t crazy enough for you?
I was just coming to terms with that, but now knowing he has 3 more days per year to plan than I do… I’m starting to get concerned again.
UTC, duh.
Presumably they use the galactic calendar to tell age.
You could pick a neutral thing and then denote that as the galactic ‘clock’. We do it as humans to an extent. We use Pulsars to measure distance and time because of the extremely precise rotation times.
Gotta warp space-time to get a few minutes more sleep
Use a unit of time based on universal constants, like seconds, an earth year is roughly 31.5Ms.
Was about to mention this.
One would believe an atomic clock to show the same time in seconds despite the celestial body it orbits. Though, that appears to be a fallacy and begs the question, what about relativity? Two identical atomic clocks would show different times depending on the influence of gravity (like near-lightspeed travel), so does everyone carry a clock around with them?
Or, at least that’s what I remember from physics class.
Get a galactic calendar or gtfo of this galaxy
You’d convert both of their ages.
Either that, or we’d just use UTC, still. Like on the ISS or Mars. Bet you computers in that timeframe would be hard built on earth’s and society’s system.