Send Me To Sleep | Clocks
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I feel like clocks are really funny things and it's kind of a miracle that we as a human species ever managed to collaboratively figure out how to keep time because when you fundamentally think about creating a clock It is a little bit counterintuitive and tricksy, because if you think, I mean, imagine yourself trying to invent the clock before any clock existed in order to do so, in order to keep time in some way. Well, you know, first we're distinguishing between personal time, you know, our own subjective perception of time and whatever we might consider to be physical time. So that might be the movement of the earth or the sun through the sky. And I suppose this is why we create clocks, in order to reconcile our subjective idea of time and the physical ideas of time around us.
But as I say, if you need to produce a clock, you'd need to first figure out some way of keeping a measure, keeping a rhythm, some sort of reliable beat that went on and on like a metronome for which you could allot that sort of singular most basic measurement of time which I suppose we call the second today with modern clocks of course you can get smaller than that and divide into milliseconds but you know let's say you're trying to figure out what the second should be for a clock well you need to find a regular rhythm somehow and say you might look at a drop of water dripping from a leaky bucket and it seems to be fairly regular drip drip drip as it goes along and you look at this and you say well it seems regular but how do I actually know that this is regular how can I determine that this is accurate
Well, in order to determine that it's accurate, you would need some kind of clock. And so you see the problem therein that ultimately you're never going to be able to completely accurately determine that something is hitting on a regular interval.
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