Comments on: Relative Timeliness

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:59:08 +0000

What is time? Maybe "time keeping" by a pulsar. .....for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one." Einstein For us earthy people... ..."Sun dial" on a wrist or..... ....for those gardening types.....calculation by exclusion...leads to "flowering point"? Bird migration of A "seasonal" circadian rhythmn. Winter passes slower, then summer? Pretty girls and hot stove has now become a "rapping" success. Using soft music, as sound in a allegorical sense can be quite heavy. So, repeat after me, "I will not be late."

By: anno-nymous

anno-nymous — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:03:59 +0000

CP Time = Communist Party time? You commies are always late because your meetings run over, or because none of you own good watches?

By: cleek

cleek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:11:54 +0000

i guess i was thinking that when the guy returns from his beer run, his internal (biological) clock will have counted 10 minutes, but the clock on the wall (real world time) will have counted 20 minutes. for him, the real world time went faster than he thought it did.

for the people waiting, they might have thought an hour passed, before noticing it was only 20 minutes (when they actually looked at the clock when he returned). for them, real time ran far slower than their biological clocks.

this is why i’m not a physicist.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:23:10 +0000

I think that depends upon how good the party has been up to that point! -cvj

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:15:34 +0000

cleek, I think you have that backward: more subjective time passes for the observer in a frame where time is running faster. Time is passing more slowly for the guy on the beer run.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:23:29 +0000

That’s a good one…. I’ve certainly been in one or other of those frames of reference at one time or other. -cvj

By: cleek

cleek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:05:21 +0000

there’s the effect where time runs faster for the person who has to run to the store for a couple of six packs when the beer runs out (”the store’s like three minutes from here! it’ll only take a sec’!”) than the people back at the party waiting for him to deliver said beer (”how long has he been gone?”).

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:34:12 +0000

Wow! I had no idea anyone was reading this thing, much less one of the very people I was talking about! Thank you so much mixing some science humour into the piece, and please do more….they are appreciated by many, I’m willing to guess.

-cvj

By: annabelle gurwitch

annabelle gurwitch — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:12:50 +0000

Thank you Clifford, I actually put a lot of thought into the piece today and am something of a science nut- as much as my limited actress brain can undertand. I have written several pieces connecting various theories to trends in pop culture and i hope they make it on the show. best, Annabelle Gurwitch