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The point is that just like the second hand on a clock divides one minute into sixty seconds, with each second just as long as every other second, the beat divides a piece of music into little fragments of time that are all the same length: beats.
And not by your alarm clock.
Picture yourself in a tub of molasses with your arms moving about as slow as the minute hand of a clock, and you'd have a pretty good idea of what a sperm is up against.
Even the ticking of a clock itself is a sort of rhythm.
Remember that ticking clock?
The answer lies 12,000 miles over your head in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics.
So in order to calculate that distance to within a few dozen feet, we need the best clock ever invented.
In other words, a clock must carry out some repetitive action to mark off equivalent increments of time.
Just as a grandfather clock relies on the constant swinging back and forth of a pendulum under gravity, the tick tock of an atomic clock is maintained by the transition between two energy levels of an atom.
That characteristic frequency is what we need to make our clock.
In the case of cesium 133, the characteristic clock frequency is 9,192,631,770 Hz.
That's a really fast clock.
So thanks to the atomic clock, we get a time reading accurate to within 1 billionth of a second, and a very precise measurement of the distance from that satellite.
And we worked around the clock trying to do everything we could, trying to help the individuals, trying to get attention, but we also did one other simple thing.
And we also worked around the clock doing shift work, day after day, and we quickly generated 99 genomes of the Ebola virus.
The penis of a chicken flea, for example, looks nothing like a pipette, more like an exploded grandfather clock.
I looked at the clock.
And up there, a place for gargoyles and broken clock towers that have stayed still and dead for maybe like 100 years, up there is me.
If we just wind the clock back a few years, when the stadium was being constructed, there is no desire path.
Just as I cannot and don't wish to turn back to the clock on equality and diversity, and yet must understand the sense of loss they can inspire, so, too, I refuse and could not if I wished turn back the clock on an ever more closely knit, interdependent world, and on inventions that won't stop being invented.
In order to stay sane, I silently counted the seconds on my alarm clock.
The clock is ticking.
Did I check it on purpose or just casually glance at the clock?
Around the time of puberty, teenagers experience a delay in their biological clock, which determines when we feel most awake and when we feel most sleepy.
At first glance, it looks to be a grandfather clock with a sheet thrown over it and a rope tied around the center.
There is no clock, there is no rope, and there is no sheet.
Fear of the disease breathing down our neck while the clock ticked.
(Ethereal music) (Music ends) So this is the sound of my alarm clock, actually, in the morning.
At home, Montag’s wife Mildred listens to the radio around the clock, and three of their parlor walls are plastered with screens.
In a little under two hours, about half the fluorine will be gone due to radioactive decay, so the clock is ticking to get the scan done.
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