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But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not
Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. W. H. Auden It is hard
to think of a subject as rich, complex, and important as time. From
the practical point of view it governs and organizes our lives
(most of us are after all attached to a wrist watch) or it helps us
to wonderfully ?nd our way in unknown territory with the global
positioning system (GPS). More generally it constitutes the
heartbeat of modern technology. Time is the most precisely measured
quantity, so the second de?nes the meter or the volt and yet,
nobody knows for sure what it is, puzzling philosophers, artists,
priests, and scientists for centuries as one of the enduring
enigmas of all cultures. Indeed time is full of contrasts: taken
for granted in daily life, it requires sophisticated experimental
and theoretical treatments to be accurately "produced. " We are
trapped in its web, and it actually kills us all, but it also
constitutes the stuff we need to progress and realize our
objectives. There is nothing more boring and monotonous than the
tick-tock of a clock, but how many fascinating challenges have
physicists met to realize that monotony: Quite a number of Nobel
Prize winners have been directly motivated by them or have
contributed 1 signi?cantly to time measurement.
But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not
Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. W. H. Auden It is hard
to think of a subject as rich, complex, and important as time. From
the practical point of view it governs and organizes our lives
(most of us are after all attached to a wrist watch) or it helps us
to wonderfully ?nd our way in unknown territory with the global
positioning system (GPS). More generally it constitutes the
heartbeat of modern technology. Time is the most precisely measured
quantity, so the second de?nes the meter or the volt and yet,
nobody knows for sure what it is, puzzling philosophers, artists,
priests, and scientists for centuries as one of the enduring
enigmas of all cultures. Indeed time is full of contrasts: taken
for granted in daily life, it requires sophisticated experimental
and theoretical treatments to be accurately "produced. " We are
trapped in its web, and it actually kills us all, but it also
constitutes the stuff we need to progress and realize our
objectives. There is nothing more boring and monotonous than the
tick-tock of a clock, but how many fascinating challenges have
physicists met to realize that monotony: Quite a number of Nobel
Prize winners have been directly motivated by them or have
contributed 1 signi?cantly to time measurement.
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