> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:53 PM > To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton' > According to a network of atomic clocks synched with GPS satellites and > monitored in Japan as surely as in Colorado.
Triviality - outside of the history. My answer to your moral activist concerns, which I like to think I share in my way, is "mindfulness". Mindfulness depends on an appreciation of the evolution of things. The "Empires of Time" subheading to the Galison's book is somewhat a play on words, but in the most basic sense he means Empire, as in Roman Empire, British Empire. There is nothing at all inevitable - or scientific (ask the French revolutionists who tried to influence things otherwise) - about how we have come to express what time it is in Tokyo. What time is it in Tokyo? Have a year or two to discuss it? Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
