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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks | Quanta Magazine
- "Clock time, Mills learned, is the result of an unending search for consensus. Even the times told by the world’s most precise government-maintained “master clocks” are composites of the readings of several atomic clocks. The master clocks, in turn, are averaged to help create international civil time, known as Coördinated Universal Time and... See more
The New Yorker • The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change | Quanta Magazine
Joseph Howlettquantamagazine.org
The “clock time” that unites all the live flow systems, animate and inanimate, is measurable. The day–night period lasts 24 hours on all the watches, wall clocks, and bell towers. Yet, physical time is not mind time. The time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another. Why? Because the young mind receives more images during
... See moreAdrian Bejan • Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies
We can’t keep track of the motion of all the air molecules in a room, so we take averages in the form of temperature and pressure. We progressively lose track of microscopic details as systems evolve into more probable states, and this relentless trend materializes as the flow of time. “The time of physics is, ultimately, the expression of our igno... See more