http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/ Engadget Comments for Pulsar clocks spin closer to reality http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/I thought time is relative, when will we start using star-dates]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
Yes... but when you want to send ships light years away, you want to be as accurate as you can be.]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/It it's not 100% accurate, you blew it.
Not that big of a deal.]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
I have a swatch and it's 100% accurate everytime I check the time servers and set it.]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
Wait a thousand years and it will probably be off by at least a little.]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
Granted I do understand why this is a big deal and it is not really a freakout but it is a problem for some of our fundamental notions about quantum level interactions.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100707/full/news.2010.337.html]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
If 'time' doesn't exist, then I got ripped off on my Rolex...]]>Jul 11th 2010 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/ok this is for the good of science but as for clock use, its crap
i'm not going to live long enough for an atomic clock to be off by a second
so until they can make me live long enough to see a sea turtle be born and die this means nothing to me]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
Funny thing is, time really doesn't exist.

Humans devised time to bring order to nature and our lives. It helps explain physics and the laws of nature we created. We *think* the pulsar (or atom) best explains our version of space time and how it fits in our equations....]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/time is relative to who is perceiving it ]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/and what defines a year or day or second or decade? time is relative to the person experiencing it]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/this is not about "time", it's about "time meassurement" and that's something different. it's a man made definition ...]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/conscience is man made so do we even exist at all or is the world as we know some weird intergalactic being's day dream]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/
Time doesn't really exist? What? Yes, our understanding of time is limited by our human cognition, but the continual passing and occurrence of events is as much of a fundamental universal concept as the existence of space. We invented a system to measure time, but we certainly did not invent time itself. And "the laws of nature that we created"? What does that mean? Are you saying we invented gravity too?]]>Jul 11th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 12th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Its more for science-ey stuff. ]]>Jul 11th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/quantum-logic-atomic-clock/]]>Jul 11th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Every time it seems to be running a little slow they send an astronaut to wind it up again, duh.]]>Jul 11th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Time's running fast these days...]]>Jul 11th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 11th 2010 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 12th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 12th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/pulsar-clocks-spin-closer-to-reality/Jul 12th 2010 2:56PM