Category: Time
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Time moving forward. Time moving backwards…
Most of our lives revolve around time, from the instant our alarm clocks go off to attending afternoon appointments to the moment we call bedtime. Tick tock. But what exactly is time, and why is it always marching forward? A new paper suggests that the arrow of time - a term given to the forward…
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Human clocks. Human time... Life...
Human existence is basically circadian. Most of us wake in the morning, sleep in the evening, and eat in between. Body temperature, metabolism, and hormone levels all fluctuate throughout the day, and it is increasingly clear that disruption of those cycles can lead to metabolic disease. Underlying these circadian rhythms is a molecular clock built…
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Galaxy maps. The beginning of the universe. Arrow of time...
Mapping the cosmos sounds like a daunting challenge, but now an international team of astronomers has managed to do just that. Using a powerful new computer algorithm and observational data from one of the world's biggest telescopes, the astronomers have created a luminous 3D map of the universe as it was just 3 billion years…
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Akinetopsia. Time stopping. Feeling the Cosmos. [Time as a prerequisite for Existence]
It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets had stopped in mid-air”, he says. “They came into hard focus rapidly, over the course…
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Past, present, future...
A smart application for phones, combining photos you take with pictures from the same place from the past. A smart application for phones, teaching philosophy... Photographs of the past, photographs of the present. (1, 2, 3) We walk next to everyone. The past, present, future - ideas in your brain. Next to your car there…
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