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- theOguy, on 02/09/2009, -3/+46I still like the old fashioned way.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzIlTABHmv4 - inactive, on 02/09/2009, -1/+39Try reading the article instead of just the title and description.
- maximilen, on 02/09/2009, -0/+27I still love my Omega automatic watch which gains a minute or so a month.
- JoeF8577, on 02/09/2009, -10/+37Yet another headline I was expecting to be the Onion.
- lead2thehead, on 02/09/2009, -1/+26Time is not absolute. It's relative to the observer. According to relativity, time passes at different speeds under different conditions. Most clocks are not accurate enough to demonstrate this principle. Apparently, this one is.
- misternils, on 02/09/2009, -6/+29WARNING: Head may explode due to nerdspeak
- Aguyinachair, on 02/09/2009, -3/+24I understand that people hate him and I'm sure there's some validity behind that, but really, this guy spends every day just looking for articles to put on digg. He 'works' at this. What he submits is generally better than the rest of the crap (Ex. Jumping goats) that gets on the front page.
I'm not saying that it's fair that what he submits has the artificial boost from his giant friend collection/ shouts, but at least he isn't abusing it by repeatedly posting dumb ass pictures of goats.
If you're going to blindly bury something, you are no better than the people who blindly dig it.
You may feel like it is unfair, but if you spent most of your day submitting and looking for things to submit, you'd probably have more front page things yourself. - inactive, on 02/09/2009, -1/+20so you're from the future?
- Takfam, on 02/09/2009, -1/+15That's it. I'm making a sundial when I get home.
- florin, on 02/09/2009, -3/+17According to modern physics, there is no such thing as time. It's entirely conventional. "One second" does not exist out there, in the abstract, or in itself, but it's just the total sum of so many billions of atom flips in such-and-such conditions.
And I'm not even getting into relativity, quantum theory and such, which complicate matters a lot more. - stinkybinky, on 02/09/2009, -0/+13looks like we got us a rebel. we don't take kindly to your theories that time ain't the fourth dimension. you wanna start throwin around new scientific ideas, hows about you do it somewhere else. like 4 chan. or better yet... let's burn him alive. then you won't have any dimensions.
- Aguyinachair, on 02/09/2009, -0/+13"...Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. This theory shakes together matter, space and time to generate our best idea yet of how gravity works. One of its predictions is that a clock will tick faster by 1 second in 1018 for every centimetre it is raised in Earth's gravitational field. GPS already takes into account such effects, which (assuming you spend most of your life upright) cause your scalp to age a few nanoseconds a year more than the soles of your feet."
I just found the reason for hair loss. Obviously, we all need to bury our heads in the ground. - Harabeck, on 02/09/2009, -0/+11Don't digg him down, he's right. If you actually read the article, you'd know that these clocks are so accurate, that to sync them all up to their maximum potential, for in an improved GPS system for instance, you would actually have to take into account minor variations in the Earth's gravity.
- BoomShake007, on 02/09/2009, -0/+11This is actually a really interesting article. Who gives a ***** if it's babyman submitting?
- jonkaz, on 02/09/2009, -1/+11Hypnotist: You are all very good players
Team: We are all very good players.
Hypnotist: You will beat Shelbyville.
Team: We will beat Shelbyville.
Hypnotist: You will give 110 percent.
Team: That's impossible; no one can give more than 100 percent. By definition that's the most any one can give. - Moisgreat, on 02/09/2009, -0/+9No time left for you
- jeexbit, on 02/09/2009, -0/+8Time is not what you will think it was.
- thetruthis, on 02/09/2009, -0/+8how can MrBabyMan be a video editor if he never does any ***** work???
- neocr0n, on 02/09/2009, -0/+8There was a fantastic BBC Horizon episode a few weeks ago with Prof Brian Cox, trying to explain exactly what time is.
Part 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3aYKAJEVfQ
It's really good watch. - FI5HERMAN, on 02/09/2009, -0/+7As stated in the post by Gill.....these are Momentous times !!!
- shallot, on 02/09/2009, -0/+7I respectfully disagree...
I am pretty sure someday we will find all the laws governing time... - Harabeck, on 02/09/2009, -0/+7Why do you assume the 4th dimension must be a spacial dimension? This is a very hot topic of debate among the physics community, you will sometimes hear our universe being referred to as have 3+1 dimensions, 3 spacial and one temporal.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -1/+8Honestly people, the other day I got on and looked at upcoming stories... it was all spam and half the links didn't even go to what they described. Thank god there are superusers submittinf decent stuff and not spam.
- Nerys, on 02/09/2009, -0/+7well its not that one second does not exist its just that was we define as one second only applies at the moment we define it.
Speed effects time. Everything is moving at a different speed. so one second is always slightly different. IE its all relative. no pun intended. - jdm0778, on 02/09/2009, -2/+9That's wrong, you'll actually age faster
- Grok22, on 02/09/2009, -0/+6According to General relativity as i sit at my desk not moving i am moving through time(the 4th dimension) at light speed. If i was to get in my car and drive 60mph i would be going the speed of light - 60mph though time, and if I were able to go the speed of light through any of the 3 spacial dimensions i would cease to move through time. thus a person or object can move independently through the 4th dimension(time).
- TheNico, on 02/09/2009, -0/+6I don't have time for this...
- twipley, on 02/09/2009, -0/+6time is stranger than women.
- FKnight, on 02/09/2009, -1/+6IE sucks.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -0/+5dugg for: jumping goats = crap
- lecturethis, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4seriously mate.....switch to decafe
- Uthman, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4FTA:
"Soon, the new technology will be so refined that if such a clock had ticked away every second since the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, it would not yet have missed a beat."
DUGG - theOguy, on 02/09/2009, -1/+5Humans are obsessive? No we're not. I'm not. Not me. Nuh-uh. No way. Couldn't be. It's just not possible. Obsessive, huh. Really? Obsessed with something, I find that hard to believe. Define obsessive. Do you mean so focused that you can't let go of it? I have no idea what you mean. Is it something that you repeat over and over and over and over and not even know it? I know my family's not obsessive, all 26 of us. My mom gets a little preoccupied from time to time. I hardly ever see my dad, he's constantly delivering pizzas. In his spare time he just likes to shave. If I want to spend time with him I have to go to his AA meetings. Hah, just kidding, my dad doesn't go to AA, it's my mom that goes, but only when she's pregnant. Me, I spend all my time making comments here. No, I'm pretty sure I'm not obsessive. Not much. Okay maybe just a bit. As much as the next guy.
- theOguy, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4The same place your socks go when they disappear from the dryer.
- illt, on 02/10/2009, -0/+4yeh...but yours is digital...not a a craftsman peice..do you know what an automatic watch is?
- drisawesome, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4Trim those sideburns
- avianeddy, on 02/17/2009, -1/+5I was gonna submit this article first but I was 0:00:00:00:00:00:00:01 seconds too late
dang - BalsamLane, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4I see what he did there.
- bonk2k, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4"If you had one of these ultraprecise atomic clocks in your home, the time would depend on how far up the wall it was fixed" That's incredible, I had no idea gravity had an effect on time. That's really cool.
Edit: Also a note to a lot of people commenting on this article: RTFA. - Mactrekr, on 02/09/2009, -0/+4Hmm, time IS relative. Seems like we're rapidly approaching a point of diminishing returns.
- nowhereelse, on 02/09/2009, -1/+4Anyone who thinks that's how gravity works is probably already doing that.
- crazyhorse13, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Why do you think that? Anyone who watched Bill Nye as a kid should be able to follow this article.
- robbiedo, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3That's heavy!
- zadadka, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Caesium schmezium ... my trusty Mickey Mouse alarm clock does me just fine.
- mobislink, on 02/09/2009, -1/+4I came into my Electromagnetic Fields class one day with out my assignment. I told the professor I couldn't do it because I had to work. He said to me, "time is incremental". I thought to myself WTF does that mean. After class I went to him and ask what he meant. He said that if I have 2 minutes of free time 10 times a day that is 20 minutes that I could be working. You have to remove the start up time of opening the books but there is time that we don't use effectively.
- jamieb122, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3Atomic clocks don't keep missing data packets from wondering the net....that would be the sliding window protocol
- monkeyrun, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3If your "clock" is created to measure time, then how could time be wrong?
- SpruceGoose13, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3On my way to better thi-
***** it, if I finish it this ***** will be on tomorrow's front page... - Harabeck, on 02/09/2009, -1/+4Why do you say that? Read the article, there are viable uses for such technology.
- shylove, on 02/09/2009, -0/+3The basic question man still has not yet answered is "Where does time go?"
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