Subject: Time's Arrow
Time is an arrow with no past, propelled by the present impulse into the
future. We cannot change the past but we can affect the future based on
how
we project our ideas.
The current discussion on the future of UTC and the leap second is a case
in point. We know we
the ITU-R had been presented with other options from that article.
Regarding Time's Arrow, Sean Carroll's book presents the most up-to-date
thinking on the subject:
http://preposterousuniverse.com/eternitytohere/
Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
personal copies for educational
purposes.
Regards, Roger Bailey
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From: Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 7:11 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: Time's Arrow
The official author's copy of our preprint is available from
Time is an arrow with no past, propelled by the present impulse into the
future. We cannot change the past but we can affect the future based on how
we project our ideas.
The current discussion on the future of UTC and the leap second is a case
in point. We know we are all getting older and
