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Thanks, GOPJ. Fascinating. Deserves its own thread.
1 posted on 04/20/2018 2:21:45 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on.


2 posted on 04/20/2018 3:04:28 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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Thanks, GOPJ. Fascinating. Deserves its own thread.


3 posted on 04/20/2018 3:08:21 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Bump for later reading


4 posted on 04/20/2018 3:12:20 AM PDT by fso301
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“Rubber Band, a-Rubber Band Man...Guaranteed to blow your mind!”


6 posted on 04/20/2018 3:31:03 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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On my little farm, which I rarely leave, I like to say I operate on God’s time. I am crepuscular as to when I wake and sleep.

If you live far from the city, in a place where only the sights and sounds of nature form the passage of time, you become human again. The pretensions of modernity fall from your skin, your mind is at peace.

The dirt over which which you so laboriously toil to provide most all your food, is both the giver of live and your last bed of repose.

The transition is transparent. With each step you see your life and feel your death as molecules everywhere fall to the soil.

7 posted on 04/20/2018 3:47:31 AM PDT by Badboo (Why it is important)
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Time is not just a function of the speed of light. It is a function of the frequency of consciousness divided by the speed of light.

As we cleanse our souls, the frequency of consciousness increases and time collapses.

This is why in God’s perfect Love, in Heaven, a day is as a thousand on earth.


10 posted on 04/20/2018 3:59:08 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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i know in extreme stress situations time expands even though it's only your perception of it
15 posted on 04/20/2018 4:25:32 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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btt


16 posted on 04/20/2018 4:42:06 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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This was new to me. From the article:
It can hardly be pure coincidence that, before gaining a university position, the young Einstein worked in the Swiss Patent Office, dealing specifically with patents relating to the synchronisation of clocks at railway stations. It was probably there that it dawned on him: the problem of synchronising clocks was, ultimately, an insoluble one.

In other words, only a few years passed between the moment at which we agreed to synchronise clocks and the moment at which Einstein realised that it was impossible to do so exactly.

A more in depth article on the same subject:

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/science-historian-work-peter-galison-clocks-that-shaped-einstein-s-leap-time.html

Einstein was remarkably in the right place at the right time with the right idea. All of his miracle papers of 1905 treated particles as if they were real, something almost forbidden by the physics community at the time. Einstein's position as an outsider really helped.

17 posted on 04/20/2018 5:03:16 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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Is time really slower the closer you get to the core of the earth, or is it simply that mechanical instruments are affected more by the forces of gravitational pull on objects closer to the the core of the earth? I think time is constant, and it’s just devices run at different speeds as they move further from the core of the earth and the effects of gravitational pull upon objects.


18 posted on 04/20/2018 5:05:40 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Time is applying numbers to the reality of motion of objects. Go see St Thomas of Aquinas to see how he explains it.


20 posted on 04/20/2018 5:06:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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Regardless of where you are in the universe, the time is always now.


21 posted on 04/20/2018 5:17:03 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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...years that hurls us towards life then drags us towards nothingness....

Maybe for him.

26 posted on 04/20/2018 6:53:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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“In other words, only a few years passed between the moment at which we agreed to synchronise clocks and the moment at which Einstein realised that it was impossible to do so exactly.”.........................It’s only a matter of time...................or is it a time of matter?.....................


27 posted on 04/20/2018 7:05:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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Posting this on 4/20 is no coincidence, right?


29 posted on 04/20/2018 7:22:44 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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Time isn’t holding us/Time isn’t after us


37 posted on 04/20/2018 9:45:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The sun seems to revolve in the sky


Wouldn’t know. I haven’t look at it that much directly.


39 posted on 04/20/2018 2:09:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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"This slowing down can be detected between levels just a few centimetres apart: a clock placed on the floor runs a little more slowly than one on a table.

It is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower"

Yep! Just another reason why it's best with the woman on top...

43 posted on 04/20/2018 3:31:56 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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