Errrr.... A Foucalt Pendulum is not about time! It's about motion in inertial space.
-John =============== > Matthew, > > On 07/23/2010 02:15 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: >> Magnus Danielson wrote: >>> On 07/23/2010 01:54 AM, Oz-in-DFW wrote: >>>> Hmmm. I thought time-nuts were nuts about time, with branch interests >>>> in accuracy, resolution, history... >>> >>> History is nanoseconds ago. >>> Recent history is picoseconds ago. >>> Just now is femtoseconds ago. >>> Fraction of mind ago is attoseconds ago. >>> Acient history is microseconds ago. >>> Ages is microseconds ago >>> Major epochs in time i seconds ago. >>> Geological short period is minutes ago. >>> Geological epoch period is hours ago. >>> >>> No? >>> >> Neurons just don't work that fast. "Just now" is still milliseconds, and >> then there's all the time-reordering that happens in your brain to make >> the skew make sense... > > It was meant as a joke... > > When working on modern digital electronics and multi-gigabit links > time-scales becomes somewhat shifted and 1 ms becomes a minor eternity. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
