Why does a week have 7 days?
posted by Rafi at 12:39 AM
This Blog will start as an experiment and we'll see where it takes us. I call this an "Inverse Blog"! I will only pose questions, some more serious than others. The internet community is invited to give answers through the comments for each post. So the main content for this Blog should come from you, the audience. Be creative in your answers and forward this Blog to your friends to make it more interesting.
3 Comments:
Because there are 7 notes in a musical scale.
Actually in some ancient cultures the weeks used to have 5 days and one third of a day, and days had 15 hours and seventeed minutes. This however meant that weekends would sometimes start in the morning but in later weeks at different times of the day, and that at some stage people used to go to sleep in bright daylight. It was only when a Jewish guy by the name of Copernikovitch invented "prime time" for TV viewing that people realised they needed to know that The Sopranos was on every Sunday night on HBO at 9PM and since tonight is the first episode of the season I better stop typing all this nonsense right now and get ready for some serious mob action.
So the ancient culture's week was like the British system and today's week is like the metric system?
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