The world's most accurate clock: Scientists create way of measuring time [truncated]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 9, 2015 | Richard Gray

[UCANSEE2]

So, I ask, “What is a long time?”

Mind Blowing… These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time

[SunkenCiv]

16 billion years? Of course, it'll be defunded during Obama's next rogue-state government shutdown.

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[coloradan]

Gravitation redshift is about 10^-16 per meter, so a clock accurate to one part in 10^18 would be able to detect the gravitational redshift of about 1/100 m, or 1 cm.

[tet68]

So, I ask, “What is a long time?”

Hey joe, me love you long time!
You want short time? Bai me ba?

[Fresh Wind]

You bad! LOL!

[brivette]

yes it is

[Redcitizen]

A long time is touching a hot iron.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

“There are bugs that only live for hours to days at a time (cicadas as an example). All life has a cycle. In this way we must assume that “a lifetime” is a standard but specific measure to every species on earth. There are reptiles that live 150+ years. I think there were dinasours that may have lived hundreds of years.”

Of course we can’t know about dinosaurs, can we?
However, I read somewhere that the lifetimes are actually in synch when you count the number of heartbeats that occur in the lifetime of a given form.