08-25-2006, 05:20 PM | #1 |
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A question for scientist types...
My wife asked me a question today for which I did not know the answer. She asked, "Hypothetically, if all the clocks in the world simultaneously stopped for a period of time, how would we know what the actual time was when the clocks restarted again. Is there a way to determine the actual time based on scientific formulas, or would we just have to guess at what the actual time is and then get everyone in the world agree to that time?" This quandry might keep up tonight.
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08-25-2006, 05:27 PM | #2 | |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time
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08-25-2006, 05:29 PM | #3 | |
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1) Status of numerous kinetically-based chemical reactions. 2) Rotation of the earth 3) Movement/location of planets etc. Sleep easy, friend.
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08-25-2006, 06:05 PM | #4 |
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When I read stuff like that, it makes me feel dumm.
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08-25-2006, 06:15 PM | #6 |
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Okay, here's another question: How did we get everbody in the world to agree on the same standards for measuring time? Were there initially some holdouts who rejected the whole second/minute/hour measurement?
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039...906320?ie=UTF8 The first part of this book documents the history of clocks, time-keeping, etc. Fascinating book.
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08-25-2006, 08:19 PM | #8 |
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lol...maybe I'm just wired differently, but is this stuff that you guys really think about?
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