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And even though, due to a relativistic effect known as time dilation, our clocks would seem to slow down relative to galactic time, it would look as though the evolution of the galaxy had been sped up and shot at us, right before we were crushed to death by the black hole.
Tell the clocks to stop.
Even here in Doha I found this little nook where you can get alarm clocks and watches fixed, and it's a lot of tiny little parts.
Back in university, we had a quick project to design some solar-powered clocks.
Many years after the solar powered clocks project, a young lady I knew suggested maybe sex is so good because of the five senses.
Now in the middle of all this five senses work, I suddenly remembered the solar-powered clocks project from my youth.
So they’re used in devices that find underground oil and mineral deposits, and they also make highly accurate atomic clocks, like the ones used in global positioning satellites.
These are simple objects: clocks, keys, combs, glasses.
Because it's also useful in studying curves, pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves, and even music.
A sweet bell pepper gets 0 Scoville heat units, while Tabasco sauce clocks in between 1,200-2,400 units.
Enter atomic clocks, some of which are so precise that they would not gain or lose a second even if they ran for the next 300 million years.
Atomic clocks work because of quantum physics.
All clocks must have a constant frequency.
Punch clocks are becoming obsolete, as are career ladders.
More precise time-keeping, like sundials and mechanical clocks, eventually came along to put time in more convenient boxes.
Linked through the precise timing of atomic clocks, teams of researchers at each of the sites freeze light by collecting thousands of terabytes of data.
So tomorrow morning, when coincidentally we get to set our clocks back by an hour and you get that delicious extra hour of sleep, and the day seems a little longer, and a little more full of hope, think about the tremendous power of sleep.
Looking at the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, you see two clocks in perfect synchronicity.
One of those clocks is going to slow down and die before the other and it's going to alter the symmetry of the artwork."
What you're seeing here is we used telescopes all around the world, we synchronized them perfectly with atomic clocks, so they received the light waves from this black hole, and then we stitched all of that data together to make an image.
Because if you can measure the age of a star, that's like having six million clocks spread all throughout the Milky Way.
So I want to I tell you that all throughout your bodies, in all of your organs, you have biological clocks that keep you in sync with the light-dark cycles of your environment that result from the Earth's rotation.
And in your heads you have a master clock, a main clock that synchronizes all of these other clocks in your bodies.
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.
We evolved without alarm clocks, without any external source of information of the time of day, and we've developed this way that keeps us in sync with our environment.
That’s because all time-based processes in the ship will slow down as well– clocks and electrical devices; Stella’s biological activities including her rate of aging and her perception of time itself.
(Alarm clocks ring) Sorry about that.
Vietnam, Kenya: wardrobes, lamps, black dogs, floors, soap, laundry, clocks, computers, phones, and so on, right?
If nothing else, at least I've discovered what it is we put our speakers through: sweaty palms, sleepless nights, a wholly unnatural fear of clocks.
And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light.
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