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Precise atomic clock may redefine time
Device lays the groundwork for a new second.
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Is It Time to Overhaul the Calendar?
A reformed calendar, with a pattern of two 30-day months, followed by one 31-day month, would be more business friendly
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U.S. builds most accurate atomic clock, could keep time for 300 million years
The U.S. Department of Commerce has developed the most accurate atomic clock that will henceforth serve as the new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard.
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It’s unnatural. It’s unnecessary. Why the seven-day week has got to go.
For eons, all manner of animals have lived their lives according to the cycles of the Earth’s rotation on its axis, the moon’s orbit around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit around the sun. But why do we observe the week? The pattern of living on a seven-day cycle—with one or two of those days set aside for rest—is a relative novelty. Only in the past few centuries, with Western colonization of most of the world, have the majority of human societies adopted it.
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Einstein's "Time Dilation" Prediction Verified
Physicists have verified a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity with unprecedented accuracy. Experiments at a particle accelerator in Germany confirm that time moves slower for a moving clock than for a stationary one.
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Russian clocks go back for last time
Russia will turn back its clocks for the last time on Sunday to permanently adopt winter hours. It will also increase its time zones from nine to 11, from the Pacific to the borders of the European Union. For the last three years, Russia experimented with keeping permanent summer time, but it proved to be highly unpopular with many Russians.
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It
Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, time is passing just a bit faster than it is on the floor.
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Time lords: The clocks that rule our world
The best clocks now lose only a second every 300 million years – and those tiny time-keeping differences are changing our world.
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Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
The pendulum clock of Longitude hero John Harrison is tested and declared a masterpiece
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Record-smashing atomic clock is the most accurate ever
It wouldn't gain or lose a single second in 15 billion years.
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Halley's Eclipse: a coup for Newtonian prediction
300 years ago, on the 3rd of May 1715, a rare solar eclipse occurred over England. It was an opportunity too good to miss for those promoting new astronomical theories – and their own careers.
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Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time: Rebecca Goldstein on How Relativity Rattled the Flow of Existence
“Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?”
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Einstein vs Bergson, science vs philosophy and the meaning of time
When Henri met Albert the stars didn’t quite align; nor did their clocks. Jimena Canales, historian of science, tells Joe Gelonesi about her discovery of an explosive 20th century debate that changed our view of time and destroyed a reputation.
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Why Time Will Stop For a Leap Second
With the advent of ever-more-accurate clocks, keeping good time is becoming surprisingly complicated.
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The leap second is coming to confuse the internet today
June 21st is usually seen as the longest day of the year, but in 2015, it's June 30th that technically holds that distinction. And it could be a problem.
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The paradox of popping back in time
Here we go again. The movie Predestination, released in the UK this week, is the very latest in the long history of time travel films. There's been more than 100 since the Terminator and Back...
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Time’s Taboos: Dirty Thoughts on Systems, Syntropy, and Psi
Classical physics, with its totally determinative, forward-in-time, billiard-ball causation, requires sweeping anomalies like psi under the rug, not to mention resigning ourselves to an absence of higher meaning and direction in the universe. Even the local islands of order allowed within the framework of dynamical systems theory... By Eric Wargo.
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Can Sound Explain a 350-Year-Old Clock Mystery?
Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy. By Jesse Emspak.
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Subversive games about waitresses and hairdressers
I spent my 20s in the service industry, overworked and underpaid. Why, now, do these games help me relax? By Laura Hudson. (April)
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Is there such thing as the beginning and end of time?
In homage to the 60th anniversary of the world’s first atomic clock, it’s time to ask what time actually is and whether it even exists.
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