[time-nuts] A different timenuts interest

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Jul 23 02:05:30 UTC 2010


Errrr....  A Foucalt Pendulum is not about time! It's about motion in
inertial space.

-John

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> 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
>
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