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Where on earth does time not exist as we mostly know it ?? Or where on earth can't you tell the time...:)

Posted - October 26, 2019

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  • 44173
    Cleveland, Ohio.
      October 26, 2019 7:26 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Nar ...:(   Fort you'd no 
      October 26, 2019 7:35 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    You've ne'er been ther.e..I have.
      October 26, 2019 7:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Ware ain't eye bin ? 
      October 26, 2019 7:40 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    Time goes too slowly for you, Ele?

    You need better humour to make it go faster?


    I heard an absurd story not long ago.

    A man goes for an audition to be permitted to compete in the swimming events at the Paralympics.
    The officials refuse him and he demands to know why.
    "Because you have no arms or legs."
    "That's irrelevant," he says. "Throw me in and I'll prove it to you."
    They throw him in.
    He quickly sinks and is on the verge of drowning when they haul him out and resuscitate him.
    "So now do you accept our decision?" they asked.
    "No," he said. "Next time, I'll just have to flap my ears a bit harder."
      October 26, 2019 8:13 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    He's a real Dumbo then on both counts.....lol
      October 26, 2019 8:21 PM MDT
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  • New Zealand. 
      October 26, 2019 7:27 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Nar......keep trying though...:) 
      October 26, 2019 7:36 PM MDT
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  • BARCALONA??? I had a major time zone issue with Spain on Friday. final answer. 
      October 26, 2019 7:37 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Hope you realize that this ain't know game show....:(   


    Its a pain.
    But it ain't Spain ...

    :)
      October 26, 2019 7:43 PM MDT
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  • So I don’t even get a lovely parting gift???? NO FAIR. 
      October 26, 2019 7:45 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    As a true blonde ,I am though...lol
      October 26, 2019 7:53 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Your shoe closet. Time stops.
      October 26, 2019 7:40 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    It seems two when im in their ...I often wonder whats a foot when I go in....:) 
      October 26, 2019 7:46 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    When we're asleep.

    When we're in a dark cave with no technology -
    though we could still somewhat tell time from noticing our heartbeat, breathing and bodily functions.
      October 26, 2019 7:40 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Is your heartbeat like the clicking of a clock? Or vice versa?
      October 26, 2019 7:45 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    At rest, my heart rate is about 60 beats per minute - which could almost be said to be like a clock.

    Maybe the setting of the duration of a second was based on the normal healthy resting heart-rate.
    Though I suspect it probably had more to do with convenient arithmetics.

    Anyway, my heart rate goes up and down in response to all sorts of physical exertions and emotional situations -
    so in that, I am nothing like a clock.
      October 26, 2019 7:53 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Odd you should mention that. When I was in the US Navy, I was in charge of one of the most accurate clocks in the world. I won't go into the science of it but it was within a billionth of a second of the standard.
      October 26, 2019 7:59 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    I guess they use the rate of decay of some radioactive isotope, yes?
      October 26, 2019 8:33 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Copy and paste is easiest.

    "Atomic" second

    But even the best mechanical, electric motorized and quartz crystal-based clocks develop discrepancies, and virtually none are good enough to realize an ephemeris second. Far better for timekeeping is the natural and exact "vibration" in an energized atom. The frequency of vibration (i.e., radiation) is very specific depending on the type of atom and how it is excited. Since 1967, the second has been defined as exactly "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom" (at a temperature of 0 K). This length of a second was selected to correspond exactly to the length of the ephemeris second previously defined. Atomic clocks use such a frequency to measure seconds by counting cycles per second at that frequency. Radiation of this kind is one of the most stable and reproducible phenomena of nature. The current generation of atomic clocks is accurate to within one second in a few hundred million years.

    Atomic clocks now set the length of a second and the time standard for the world.
      October 27, 2019 12:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I would have thought you would hsve known...lol
      October 26, 2019 7:47 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Have...:(
      October 26, 2019 7:48 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    One last guess...in your arms. Time stands still.
      October 26, 2019 7:49 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    Apparently I don't.
    Will you let me know after enough Muggers have answered? Pretty please?
      October 26, 2019 7:54 PM MDT
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