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tomewitch She got 1:15? And Beezus got 1:05. Not much of a difference. She nodded towards the Prefect as she said that they had a ten minute difference. "Yeah. Well..at least it wasn't an hour or more than," Then she walked to where Kurumi was to find out what the time was based on the girl's pocket watch. Merlin bless her for she really did hoped against hoping that the time on the watch won't be too far from their experimental results. That was why when she found out that it was 1:10, she couldn't help but jump! "That was cool! We were almost there." the young eaglette exclaimed gleefully.
"You're right." she replied as the Prefect told her that time was in fact a human-made concept. Beezus couldn't help but stare at her as she then continued to tell her about the real concept of time. She was right, everything she said was correct. Humans just tend to find answers to their question by making their own solutions and own methods. And yes, there wasn't a constant universal time. No..even before everything in the planet has been made, time wasn't measured. "Mhhhmmhm.." she nodded. Well.. what could she say? Kurumi said it all perfectly. Now Beezus knew why she really admired the girl. Then a thought suddenly hit her. "Oh. Kurumi, as we're speaking about time and that kind of stuff, when was the start of time being measured?" Now she was really getting curious about that.
Kurumi smiled and nodded as she returned her pocket watch to her robe's pocket. "
I think we also got lucky given the time of day we are doing this. Hard to really make too much of a mistake a reckon with the sun almost directly over head." Not much of a shadow to cast and all that. had it been closer to 4 or 5 then, well, they probably would have had a bit more of a struggle. Not to mention the whole time correction thing that sometimes needed to be done and...she just needed to stop thinking. They had just accomplished part of their Astronomy assignment.
Kurumi cocked her head to the side. "
You know...I don't think I know the answer to that," she laughed. "
When the movement of the sun was realized by following shadows on the ground I suppose that that was the first conscious recognition of trying to track and record time..." She scratched the back of her head as she thought a bit more. Nope, she really didn't have an answer for the girl, and that wasn't really a bad thing either. Concepts of time were, well, all rather advanced really.