What in our solar system determines a week? We have 24 hours, a month, a year, but about a week, I dont know.?
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The week based on the 6 days it took God to make the universe and rested on the seventh day. Thats the week but the week is composed of the 24 hour periods where we spin fully. The year where we revolve around the sun in 365 days.
I hope that answers your question
1/4 of what defines a month, probably the 1st quarter, 2nd quarter moon...etc
looking at my calendar there is a new phase of the moon about every week give or take a day
I guess it was just one of those things created by man to make things easier. The moon thing sounds reasonable, too.
It's nothing in our solar system, our solar system doesn't determines the time.
It's just the calendar that we have, 365 days for 1 year, 1 week = 7 days and 23.56 hours a day its not 24... Just scientific experiments.
In the Bible, God took seven days to create the Earth. It's been that way every since.
Man made, just another division of the 365 day year cycle. If you keep dividing you can get all the way down to seconds, and whatever is before them.
Timing is everything if you will.
Days were named to more easily identify beyond today, tomorrow, yesterday, day after etc.
The rotation of the Earth. By simple definition, a week is seven days. A day is a full rotation of the Earth.
Yes, somewhere it gets blurry in that a year has little to do with the rotation of the earth but more about the position of the Earth around the sun. Hence we have leap years(extra days) to keep the Earth revolving clock matching the earth orbiting around the sun clock.
men wanted a 7 day week..5 for work...1 for rest and 1 for worship... 7days. 52 times 7 equal 365 days in a year. every so often we get an extra day and have 366 days
It was most probably to do with the visible moving objects in the sky:
Sun Sunday
Moon Monday
Tuesday Mars
Mercury Wednesday
Jupiter Thursday
Venus Friday
Saturn Saturday
What determines a week, great question by the way. The ancient Gregorians, from whom we get our modern day calendar figured out long ago that a year was 365 and one quarter days long. The numbers 12, the amount of months, 52 the amount of weeks, and 7 the amount of days in that week, were all perfected throuhg mathematic calculations, and all have inverse values in regards to 365.25.
Do a Yahoo Search for the question:
why are there seven days in a week
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=why+are...
This article in particular goes into detail:
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/hlwc/why...
I think the final explanation is this (quoting the article):
[Based on common names for the visible planets and how ancient peoples named their gods for them or the visible planets for their gods and how the days are named for the gods or planets and the sun and moon in many culturues] it is obvious why there are seven days in a week: This is the number of visible planets [to the naked eye or 5 planets] plus the Sun and the Moon.
Others have speculated that it is the lunar month / 7 but division is a relatively modern concept to the people who started the calendars and days of the week. You have to reason based on evidence from the past, not modern information.
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