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More accurate clocks may add more disorder to the universe, scientists say
Live Science ^ | May 17, 2021 | Ben Turner - Staff Writer

Posted on 05/17/2021 8:22:05 PM PDT by LucyT

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To: LucyT
“Time was invented so that everything didn't happen at once’’.Einstein.
41 posted on 05/17/2021 10:40:00 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: LucyT

Time does not exist. We create it because we live finite lives.

If we lived forever, there would be no time. And that’s a promise from God.A place where everything is happening at the same moment.


42 posted on 05/17/2021 11:15:31 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Mom MD; All

That’s because entropy is racist!


43 posted on 05/17/2021 11:56:47 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: LucyT

So eternal means a lack of time.


44 posted on 05/18/2021 12:00:12 AM PDT by MAAG (Surely the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets.)
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To: LucyT

What is time but the future turning into the past.


45 posted on 05/18/2021 12:04:29 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

“The future disappears into memory
With only a moment between...”

Lyrics from my favorite band!


46 posted on 05/18/2021 12:10:26 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Jyotishi

I believe it was best said by that renowned philosopher, Steve Miller, who wrote: “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’...into the future....”


47 posted on 05/18/2021 12:14:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: LucyT; knarf

>> A famous scene in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”

2081a film by Chandler Tuttle (based on the 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” by author Kurt Vonnegut)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3959620/posts

What’s goin on... ;)


48 posted on 05/18/2021 12:55:06 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Steely Tom

Have you seen the animation of human DNA gene duplication?

Here’s one presentation that uses parts of the best animation of this process that has been (pro?)created to date:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A

The original version of the aforementioned animation has been available for viewing on YouTube for a while now. The chopped up and edited version shown on this video is the best I could find in a few minutes searching. It’s power is limited to the personality and (probably atheistic) perspective of the video narrator.

To give you some idea of the degree of pretension, subtle redirection and manipulation taking place in the video to keep the viewer’s eye off the ball and prevent him or her from coming to the obvious conclusion (God Exists and Is Large and In Charge), consider the fact that the narrator is an American who actually willingly reads out in his script the Brit phrase “in future” instead of changing it to the American version thereof. Who does that?

Anyway...

It’s been determined based on the overall time it takes for one complete human cell to divide into two complete human cells that the rate of spin of the natural engine (helicase? I think it’s called?) that takes in one DNA strand and spits out two DNA strands is comparable to that of a modern turbofan jet engine. This is (thankfully) mentioned in the video.

When one sees with one’s eyes the design, function and interplay of the parts and raw material (including floating bits of RNA and C (cytosine), T (taurine), A (...?...), G (guanine)) necessary to pull it off...well, suffice it to say, good luck not seeing the hand and mind of God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, in that!

By the way...please consider changing your handle at some point. This is (or should be) a family show. Scandal, however subtle, detracts from that goal. Admittedly, you could say that literally, this is merely One Guy’s opinion. Think about it though.


49 posted on 05/18/2021 1:22:08 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: LucyT

Doing anything at all, “increases the disorder” of the universe. Every change in energy increases the entropy
‘of the universe”. “Every” thing includes the explosion of a super nova down to simply thinking a thought. All require energy and every change in energy creates more entropy. Measuring time, or measuring your height, or winning World War Two all take energy and all increase entropy. Calling it “disorder” is simply media hype.


50 posted on 05/18/2021 3:54:07 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: LucyT

Time is an artificial construct - there is no such “real” thing as time.


51 posted on 05/18/2021 3:58:05 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Don W; All

The only entropy a “more accurate” clock produces is the expenditure of energy it needs to go tick and tock.

What a useless bit of blather this article is. I suppose the math will be useful for some esoteric physics researchers and computer scientists.

For the rest of us.....flatulence is more of an ‘energizing’ experience.


52 posted on 05/18/2021 4:05:33 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: 21twelve

Rush?


53 posted on 05/18/2021 4:08:14 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Psalm 73

Well there such a thing as time but it should be thought of as the “eternal now” in which God operates where past present and future are all the same. We know that the speed of an object affects the passing of time relative to that object as opposed to what happens to other fixed objects on Earth. The techs do have to put in correction algorithms in orbiting space craft as their speed relative to objects on earth makes them several seconds behind with increased compounding of such time errors unless the the correction factors are programmed in. The ratios are such that if such craft approached the speed of light, then time goes towards “nowness” while time on earth passes in a flash. But it takes enormous amounts of energy for an object to reach the “nowness” of zero time. Hence increased entropy of the universe as energy is drawn from it for a given object to hit light speed and the nowness state of zero time.

I think you are right in one sense about time being an artifical construct. It is a tool to help us understand rates of changes and proportions in our work and in our lives in this backdrop of entropy we exist in. Our standardized measurements of time may not be the same standards used on some other hypothetical world but whether this world or that world the same laws of physics, as they pertain to the passage of time of particles accelerated to great velocities/ relative to a fixed point on on either world, would apply.


54 posted on 05/18/2021 4:28:56 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Larry Lucido
Fight entropy. Stop clocks.

This should stop a few...


55 posted on 05/18/2021 4:33:29 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: mdmathis6
Thanks for the response - a great explanation for those of us who don't really understand the math part of physics.

(I mean we understand the concepts, but balancing our check books is pretty-much the practical extent of our math knowledge).

56 posted on 05/18/2021 4:38:55 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: LucyT

Say whut?
I think them “physicists” are left wingers setting us up to believe that any accuracies - like TRUTH, and maybe getting right answers in math are more than just racist - they will destroy us all —— because they require chaos for their clout...


57 posted on 05/18/2021 5:07:06 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: LucyT

And then there’s changing the clocks twice a year...for no real reason...which upsets our mental and physical state....not to mention figuring out how to change the clock in the car.


58 posted on 05/18/2021 5:14:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: noiseman

Darwinists have solved every problem dealing with the evolution of life. They start off by saying, “It may have happened this way,” to stating, “it likely happened thus,” to ending the narrative by dogmatically affirming that crabs became beavers, just give the process enough time. Apparently, time has the power to make miracles happen.


59 posted on 05/18/2021 5:21:30 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Mom MD
The process of organization creates more entropy than was consumed in the ordering.

This could be considered the driving force behind evolution as it hastens Le Fin de la Monde.

60 posted on 05/18/2021 5:22:46 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Mob rises; the Monarchy trembles; the blade sings its lone song...)
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