Pripyat was founded 1970 to serve to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars. More precise time-keeping eventually came along to put time in more convenient boxes. But what exactly are we measuring? Andrew Zimmerman Jones contemplates whether time is something that physically exists or is just in our heads.
Buenos Aires, Argentina