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We take all these recordings, and with atomic clock precision we align them perfectly, later in a supercomputer.

Go to the clock.

It's the first working prototype of the clock.

So the design problem for today is going to be, how do you house an eventual monumental clock like this so it can really tick, save time beautifully for 100 centuries?

You need absolutely the right mountain if you're going to have a clock for 10,000 years.

That's a 2,000-foot thick formation, and it might be a beautiful place to hide a clock.

It would be a pilgrimage to get to it; it would be a serious hike to get up to where the clock is.

He has a theory of how the overall clock experience should work.

In this case it might well be an image of the clock.

Now, Jeff Bezos advised us when he left at the end of the expedition, "Make the clock inaccessible.

Now, Danny and I were up at this same area one day, and Danny looked over to the right and noticed something halfway up the cliffs, which is a kind of a porch or a cliff shelf with bristlecones on it, and supposed that people going up to the clock inside the mountain could come out onto that shelf and look down at the view.

And you need to know that Danny's clock is to be kept accurate by a ray of sunshine, that perfect noon hitting it every sunny day, and the pulse of heat from that sets off a solar trigger which resets the clock to make it perfectly accurate.

So even with the slowing of the rotation of the earth and so on, the clock will keep perfectly good time.

The clock experience should be profound, but from the outside it should be invisible.

You'd have a polished set of passages and chambers in there eventually leading to the 10,000 year clock.

Most of the amazingness of the clock we can borrow from the amazingness of the mountain.

And it's one thing to do sketches, but of course translating from a sketch into a tourable revolving six-story building took some exceptional engineers working around the clock for three months, until finally we arrived in Miami and opened the show in April 2016.

Because the clock is ticking for all of us.

That's nothing new: that's a propeller clock; that's the rims that you can buy for your car.

And in your heads you have a master clock, a main clock that synchronizes all of these other clocks in your bodies.

The way that this works is that light travels from a source, such as the Sun, or an artificial light source, through your eyes, and that light information is then conveyed to the brain, to the master clock that's in a part of your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or the SCN.

So, how can I convince you that you have this clock?

Well, if I closed you in a dark room where you would have no external source of light, no alarm clocks, no clocks of any kind, you would still retain rhythmic sleep and wake patterns at least for a little while, because your clock was previously trained to light-dark cycles and one of the main functions of the clock is to regulate behavioral rhythmicity.

And this is because your clock takes a few days to get realigned with this new schedule.

So, what is this clock?

The clock is a molecular oscillator, the details here are not important at all, I don't want you to look at the names of these things on the board, but I want to point out that the clock is essentially the same in animals such as fruit flies, which my lab uses in our studies, and in mammals like mice or humans.

And the first glimpses of the clock, the components of the clock, and the way that it ticks were gained in the fly, actually.

What I want to stress here is that the clock is tuned by light.

Some of the components of this clock are actually degraded, directly degraded by light.

So, that results in the state of the clock essentially oscillating throughout the day and night.

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