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Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/14/scihawking114.xml ^
| 6:01pm BST 14/09/2008
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 09/28/2008 6:14:20 AM PDT by Cvengr
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About time.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:14:22 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
To: Cvengr
I didn’t have the time to read the whole article but I’m pretty sure the clocks on my wall will work just fine at a considerable savings. Cool clock though. Hawkings stuff mostly just goes over my head
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:19:10 AM PDT
by
refermech
To: refermech
The alien bug-like motif sure is difficult to blend into most decors. Go figure.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:22:03 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Cvengr
Pretty cool. Hawking doesn’t have anything to do with the clock—he’s just given the honors of unveiling it. I’d love to see this thing in action. Very interesting.
To: Cvengr
To: Cvengr
The Corpus Clock will be unveiled by Prof Stephen Hawking The Corpus Clock will be unveiled by Prof Stephen Hawking...It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking... Good article, but who's unveiling it? :-)
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:26:11 AM PDT
by
rickmichaels
(God Bless America, Land That I Love)
To: Cvengr
It's the rollout of the Clinton Backwards Wrist Watch retro model?
To: rickmichaels
I’m doing everything I can to resist those mental images of Hawking in a wheelchair desperately manipulating his mouthstick on the large canvas covering the timepiece.
If I recall, he has lost even that dexterity, but I maybe mistaken. Interesting fellow.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:32:14 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Cvengr
The mechanical part with the lights would be fun to see. The chain dropping in the coffin is kinda out there.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:38:07 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: Cvengr
It’s not a “new way to tell time”, it’s just a gimmicky electro-mechanical clock. It’s boooring.
The article is very disappointing, especially since it evokes the name of a prominent physicist, Steven Hawking.
Timekeeping boasts a truly fascinating history, running from ancient Babylon, through Chinese water clocks, sundials, Galileo’s pendulum, the Harrison chronometer onward through general relativity to today’s atomic clocks. It’s a story that is far from finished.
There are a thousand fascinating branches and digressions in the story of timekeeping. This is not one of them.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:45:00 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: Cvengr
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:45:23 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(The best is the enemy of the good!)
To: refermech
One million dollars? Is it solid gold?
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:48:51 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Cvengr
To: DUMBGRUNT
Interesting read. Thanks.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:52:20 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Cvengr
Too bad there’s no video. A static picture doesn’t cut it.
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posted on
09/28/2008 6:53:02 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Cvengr
On the hour, a chain drops into a wooden coffin hidden behind the clock "to remind us of our mortality," he said.
Go great with my poster.
To: Cvengr
You call that a clock? That's not a clock.
THIS is a clock.
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posted on
09/28/2008 7:07:07 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
To: Cvengr
*** If I recall, he has lost even that dexterity, but I maybe mistaken. Interesting fellow. ***
Yes he did. Its pretty sad to see him now. A Grad Student does all the work *guessing* what Hawking wants by his eye movements.
['He's' working on a new Black Hole theory, prolly never get completed.]
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posted on
09/28/2008 7:13:40 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
To: DUMBGRUNT
From a gearhead, thanks for the great links.
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posted on
09/28/2008 7:13:49 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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09/28/2008 7:19:02 AM PDT
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Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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