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Jonathan Hockey
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this radical upheaval in the conception of time lay an
extraordinary yet easily stated idea that has remained dead-center in physics, philosophy, and technology ever since: To talk about time, about simultaneity at a distance, you have to synchronize your clocks. And if you want to synchronize two clocks, you have to start with one, flash a signal to the other, and adjust for the time that the flash takes to arrive.
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extraordinary yet easily stated idea that has remained dead-center in physics, philosophy, and technology ever since: To talk about time, about simultaneity at a distance, you have to synchronize your clocks. And if you want to synchronize two clocks, you have to start with one, flash a signal to the other, and adjust for the time that the flash takes to arrive.
David
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Fascinating, especially on the social, cultural, political as well as scientific environment that Poincaré and Einstein operated in: The importance of the work on longitude for Poincaré! The importance to Einstein of the patent work in Bern!
I suspect I'll wind up purchasing a copy!
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I suspect I'll wind up purchasing a copy!
