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New clock may end time as we know it

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    Kent Sharkey
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    NPR[^]:

    "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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      NPR[^]:

      "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

      “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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      DaveX86
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      Neat!...I've always jokingly maintained that there is no such thing as time...it's cool to see that it changes with gravity.

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        NPR[^]:

        "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

        “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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        Bert Mitton
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        Unless it run by Stardate, it can be canned with the metric system. :)

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          NPR[^]:

          "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

          “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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          den2k88
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          People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

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            People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

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            Duncan Edwards Jones
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            A "non-subjective" viewpoint on time...is that time, as seen from the outside?

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              NPR[^]:

              "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

              “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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              Duncan Edwards Jones
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              Time varies with gravity? I think there was a Swiss patent clerk who has prior art on that idea.

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                Time varies with gravity? I think there was a Swiss patent clerk who has prior art on that idea.

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                Bernhard Hiller
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                But he had not enough gravity to change the time - one stone creates to little of it.

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                  But he had not enough gravity to change the time - one stone creates to little of it.

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                  Duncan Edwards Jones
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                  He got some relatives to help.

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                    NPR[^]:

                    "My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct"

                    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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                    FIorian Schneidereit
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                    Now I understand why I'm so forgetful these days but still can run like the wind... my head is just aging faster than my feet. I ought to perform more headstands. :)

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                      Time varies with gravity? I think there was a Swiss patent clerk who has prior art on that idea.

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                      Vivi Chellappa
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                      Fat lot of good it did to him. He didn't have the sense to patent the idea despite working at the Patent Office! PS. The scientist (Leo Szilard) who thought of the chain reaction did take out a patent on it. It was pretty much confiscated by the British government during World War II.

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                        A "non-subjective" viewpoint on time...is that time, as seen from the outside?

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                        den2k88
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                        You're just not thinking fourth-dimensionally!

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