New Years is just a birthday for Time!
You don't have to go if that rat bastard keeps messing with your life like by simultaneously being all the way over there and then also right in your face. If you're still friends with Time then fine, but don't drag the rest of us into it.
They tried to launder the merciless behavior of time by anthropomorphizing it as a dying old geezer transforming into a cute little baby on its birthday. So now if you express any negative Time sentiment people immediately just go "oh so you hate a cute changeling baby, OK,,,,"
@jonny 😆 anthrotime oh lordy 🙈😹
What's the big deal about time's birthday, there's like 3 other whole dimensions, when do we celebrate space's birthday?
@jonny Not when, but where is it celebrated?
Is the equivalent of a temporal birthday in space a.... Monument? If you are going nearly the speed of light, do you cease having birthdays and need to just erect monuments to yourself?
@jonny As far as I can tell, this is the plot of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@jonny Yes to the first (I think), but no to the second: the time dimension has the opposite sign to space, which means there's always a proper time by which you can measure birthdays, no matter how fast you travel, because Lorentzian geometry.
And because relativity, what's time and what's space depends on your choice of coordinate system. It's like how some people say "we're stationary, but experience the Coriolis effect", and other people say "we're moving, on the surface of a spinny ball".
@jonny But I suppose that doesn't actually address your original question of "when do we celebrate space's birthday?", because every coordinate transformation has some component of the old time in the new time. You can't treat a pure spatial direction as a time direction, unless you're really close to a black hole or something.
If the answer really is "monuments", then I might suggest the geodetic trigs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_station
@wizzwizz4
so New Years is Time's birthday but also a piece of temporal survey infrastructure
