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Mind Blowing… These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time
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Posted on 02/08/2015 4:22:05 PM PST by gorush
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To: BushCountry
This can be controlled.....to advantage...IMO
To: gorush
Time Machine--Dante &he Evergreens.
The story of a time traveler who goes back to make some time, "1960 style," with Queen Cleopatra.
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:04:57 PM PST
by
Rufii
To: Crazieman; gorush
Thanks gorush for the ping, and Crazieman, /bingo!
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:46:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
To: BushCountry
When I flipped my parents car everything nearly stopped - I watched individual grains of dirt fly up and could follow the crack in the window as it formed up the middle
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posted on
02/08/2015 7:56:23 PM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: reed13k
Only serious accident I’ve ever had, I recall thinking how soft cars are, like crushing a beer can, as I watched the hood crumple and I honestly thought I could see ripples going across the metal before it crumpled, like throwing a pebble into a pond. I also recall thinking that the sound effects people in movies and on television had the sound completely wrong.
To: reed13k
Time slowed for me when I got caught in a micro burst. Every thing looked slow motion and I was able to steer the car around sailing trees and a flying garbage can. Very interesting.
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:10:34 PM PST
by
cotton
(one way, one truth, the life.)
To: gorush
#8 Was pretty mind blowing. The rest, not do much.
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posted on
02/08/2015 8:18:42 PM PST
by
keat
To: gorush
20. If youre over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime...when I learned to administer the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale fifty years ago, the answer to one of the Information questions "What is the population of the United States" was about one hundred and fifty million people - now it's over three hundred million - time does go by......
To: gorush
I saw an article recently that some folks have actually developed a clock that is so insanely accurate that it can't actually be used. It is so accurate that if you had 2 of these clocks, and mounted one on a wall, and the other on the floor, they would soon start to disagree as to exactly what time it was. That is because of the difference in the effect of gravity the each clock would experience because of it's relative distance from the center of the earth.
In order to accurately track time, even with benefit of a reference clock, you need to have 2 separate clocks that can be compared and agree on exactly what time it is. We have now officially exceeded the mount of accuracy a clock can have. From an engineering standpoint, it's pretty cool that we can split time up into chunks that small, in my not so humble opinion. However, from a practical standpoint, it's somewhat less than useful.
Of course, time measurement and definitions are completely arbitrary. This is true to a greater degree than most people even realize. Just about all smartphones now have GPS recievers built into them these days. One interesting thing about GPS time... It does not take leap seconds into account. Since there have been about 20 leap seconds (IIRC from the last time I looked that up) added to what are the standard reference time sources that are not reflected in GPS. In fact, there are several different "standards" for what time it actually is. I just took a look at leapsecond.com which has a pretty cool page to show the different time standards out there.
Here's what it showed me for the current time...
Here's what the different times are...
- Local time is the date/time reported by your PC (as seen by your web browser). If your PC clock is accurate to a second then the other time scales displayed above will also be accurate to within one second.
- UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, popularly known as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), or Zulu time. Local time differs from UTC by the number of hours of your timezone.
- GPS, Global Positioning System time, is the atomic time scale implemented by the atomic clocks in the GPS ground control stations and the GPS satellites themselves. GPS time was zero at 0h 6-Jan-1980 and since it is not perturbed by leap seconds GPS is now ahead of UTC by 16 seconds.
- Loran-C, Long Range Navigation time, is an atomic time scale implemented by the atomic clocks in Loran-C chain transmitter sites. Loran time was zero at 0h 1-Jan-1958 and since it is not perturbed by leap seconds it is now ahead of UTC by 25 seconds.
- TAI, Temps Atomique International, is the international atomic time scale based on a continuous counting of the SI second. TAI is currently ahead of UTC by 35 seconds. TAI is always ahead of GPS by 19 seconds.
So, when someone asks you the question, "does anybody really know what time it is?"
You can answer: it depends upon what time you are talking about.
Computer time is even worse. Different operating systems have different epoch dates, and thus begin counting seconds from different starting places. There is a really interesting wikipedia article about this that goes into the who/what/whys of this in detail. I read through it a couple of times, and came out of it with the conclusion that what we really ought to do is standardize on the Posix epoch, then apply a lookup table to add/subtract leap seconds as required in order to allow us to actually agree on what number is going to be displayed. Since leap seconds aren't predictable as to when they will be added (we'll be getting one this year on June 30 I believe), the only accurate way to keep track is to have a lookup table that gets updated each time a leap second is added or subtracted.
Time is a funny thing, and how we keep track of it is fascinating IMO. One thing I'd really love to know is how we'll deal with timekeeping once we leave this planet and become interstellar travellers. Various sci-fi authors have had various ideas. None that I know of have looked at it in the detail I think it deserves.
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posted on
02/08/2015 9:04:22 PM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: Nailbiter
To: gorush
We got there in time for the party!
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posted on
02/08/2015 9:10:58 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: gorush
The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote. Depending on what state you lived in women were allowed to vote national elections starting in 1870.
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posted on
02/08/2015 9:23:41 PM PST
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Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Mind Blowing
These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time
Hyperbole much? Interesting facts but nothing that would blow my mind.
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posted on
02/08/2015 10:39:30 PM PST
by
tenger
(It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
To: tenger
I neither wrote or posted it.
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posted on
02/08/2015 11:10:43 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Ransomed
WOW! Thanks. I hadn’t seen that video before. Great camera work, also. That’s a good waker upper this morning.
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posted on
02/09/2015 3:29:13 AM PST
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PGalt
To: Ransomed; All
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posted on
02/09/2015 3:37:59 AM PST
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PGalt
To: Yehuda
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02/09/2015 5:57:29 AM PST
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(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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