• Question: Why are their not sixty hours in a day?!

    Asked by T to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 7 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 7 Mar 2015:

      I know right… I could sleep for so much longer!

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      But imagine if there were 60 hours in a day… A school/work day would be sooooooo much longer! And who would want that?! 😉

    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      if there were 60 hours in a day then each hour would be shorter (so that they all fitted into that one circle of the earth going round the sun). and if I still worked a 1/3 of a day, which would be 20hours, but got paid the same amount per hour…. then I’d be rich!!! 😉

      but so would the rest of the population so maybe in real terms it wouldn’t help.

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      What is a day? a revolution around Earth axis.
      You can divide it as many moments as you like. 24 is a medium size number that give you flexibility without going too crazy in the details. For that we invented minutes!

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