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...hysical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory of relativity do not find their e... ...respondence in the real world. It is also clear that the solid body and the clock do not in the conceptual edifice of physics play the part of irred... ...ased that on the shrinking of lengths to zero, 6 and the slowing of clocks as the speed of light is approached. This leads to our second non... ...2] Einstein himself, in his 1905 paper, specifically took the rate of a clock's timekeeping to be velocity-dependent only. However [there are] t... ... which we know something certain. "Immaterial"? Consider that an atomic clock will run slower in a stronger gravitational field but a pendulum c... ... frame moving with the rocket and the parameter τ is the time measured by a clock in the rocket. The units used in these equations are “natural coo... ...roaches infinity. But the navigator in the rocket after one year of rocket clock time thinks he should have exceeded the velocity of light because ... ... instant of the rocket’s proper time (proper time is the time measured by a clock in the rocket). We will also need to use some principles from te... ...n which it began to accelerate. Note that the proper time as measured by a clock on the rocket, τ , is the parameter in the equations of motion. ...
...relations of real things, but only geometry together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world. It is also clear that the solid body and the clock do not in the conceptual edifice of physics play the part of irr...
...same as well. In some cases we didn’t take a nap, so around two or three o’clock it was playtime. We would go outside to play all kinds of Indian game... ... into the smaller, locally-owned shops that edge the square. As the Albert Clock chimes five, a swarm of people appears, hastily making their way towa... ...mers onto the pavements, where they can catch the last bus home. By four o’clock, the city is cat- napping, only to awake early and begin the cycle ag...
.... . . . 375 A Tombless Epitaph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 For a Market-Clock (Impromptu) . . . . . . . . . . . 377 The Madman and the Lethargis... ...: Poems Christabel 1801 Part 1 ’Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu — whit! — Tu — w... ...s mastiff bitch; From her kennel beneath the rock She maketh answer to the clock, Four for the quarters, and twelve for the hour; Ever and aye, by... ...elling its neck as she swelled hers! I woke; it was the midnight hour, The clock was echoing in the tower; But though my slumber was gone by, This... ...s upon his cheek. - 375 - A Tombless Epitaph Coleridge: Poems For a Market-Clock (Impromptu) 1809 What now, O Man! thou dost or mean’st to do ... ...all tell The moment that secures thee Heaven or Hell! - 376 - For a Market-Clock (Impromptu) Coleridge: Poems The Madman and the Lethargist. An Exa... ... And each man make himself a home: Or, if old habits ne’er forsaking, Like clock-work of the Devil’s making, Ourselves inveterate rogues should be,...
...mberlain as a fox by Francis Carruthers Gould. At twenty minutes to five o’clock on a summer afternoon in 1904, the room is empty. Presently the outer... ...I hope you slept well. NORA. Did anything wake yup with a thump at three o’clock? I thought the house was falling. But then I’m a very light sleeper. ...
...emannian space with the signature (−+++), they write in §3 that “. . . the clock at rest always indicates a greater time interval than the moving one”... ...sitive count of its own time coordinatedt>0 with respect to the observer’s clock. Therefore we put “plus” before the action. D. Rabounski. A Theory of... ...e well-known Hafele-Keating experiments concerned with displacing standard clocks around the terrestrial globe, where rotation of the Earth space sens... ... 00 and g 0i in the observer’s laboratory (his reference frame) a standard clock located there should have some cor- rections (which change with time)... ...ave some cor- rections (which change with time) with respect to a standard clock located in an region where the quanti- tiesg 00 andg 0i are stationar... .... Such refer- ence frames are known as synchronous [15], because there all clocks can be synchronized. Moreover, in this case time can be integrated: ... ...egration). If F i =0 but A ik =0, it is impossible to synchronize all the clocks simultaneously, but the synchronization itself can be realized becau... ... component ϕ, which indicates the difference between time fows measured by clocks located at each of the particles. We then obtain the relative time d... ...e particles, but also a deviation between measurements of time made by the clocks of both particles. The “time deviation” ϕ can be found by integratin...
...lf' will still hold true. For example, the exact systemic statement ‘I see the clock showing 12:00” would fail to be truth a minute later, the fuzzy ...
...string dynamics [126], [37], [24], instead of thex 0 parameter (coordinate clock). One then obtains dΣ 2 = dΩ 2 1+L 2D−2 dx μ dΩ dx μ dΩ + +L 2D−4 d... ...gestion has been confrmed in experiments with collimators, rotated counter-clockwise, west to east (i. e. in a direction of rotation of the Earth), as... ..., west to east (i. e. in a direction of rotation of the Earth), as well as clockwise (east to west). The description of these experiments is given fur... ...ne of Celestial Equator. 3 Results Three revolutions of collimator counter-clockwise in a day. The diurnal period of increase in frequency of histogra... ...fy to the beneft of this assumption. The number of the “diurnal” cycles at clockwise rotation should be one less then numbers of collimator revolution... ...onstructed at measurements with collimator ro- tated 3 times a day counter-clockwise in a plane of celestial equator. As you can see at the Fig. 2, at... .... As you can see at the Fig. 2, at three revolutions of collimator counter-clockwise, the frequency of similar histo- grams fuctuates with the period ... ...39 Pu sample by detector with collimator, making three revolutions counter-clockwise (west to east) in a day. revolutions counter-clockwise. At measur... ...on is supported also by results of experiments with rotation of collimator clockwise. In these experiments collimator made one revolution a day clockw...
...d - would help to resolve that mystery. The slowing of certain kinds of clocks under increased gravitation and acceleration fields, as predicted b... ...eed of light is slowed in such fields; but note that a pendulum-regulated clock would run faster under increased gravity; and the assumption that "t... ...nder phase two of the grand experiment, then under general relativity all clocks on the ship would be expected to keep pace with those on Earth; and... ... (4) the general relativity environment can truly affect the running of clocks which depend on atomic processes for their timekeeping and in that ... ...er increased gravitation fields, biological processes, pendulum-regulated clocks and balance-wheel-regulated clocks would not be affected in the same... ...al field. Time distortion under general relativity is reminiscent of the clock problems faced by early transoceanic navigators; those problems were... ...d by early transoceanic navigators; those problems were finally solved by clocks designed and built in the particular tradition proven by John Harri... ...imultaneously" at any given place: the time our perennial Wells sees on a clock external to the time machine and the time metered by the flow of his ... ...of relativistic time dilation begs for attention. One scenario called the clock hypothesis, clock effect, or twins paradox, deals with the aging of ...
... of death, the English either fire or candle in their houses after eight o’clock; whether was this to prevent their nocturnal meetings, or only to try... ...tion; a lord, powdered in the tip of the mode, who knows exactly at what o’clock the king rises and goes to bed, and who gives himself airs of gran- d... ... one another. We must, says he, make an experiment to see whether the same clock will go faster on the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; w... ...res the soul to be virtuous, whatever substance it may be made of. It is a clock which is given us to regulate, but the artist has not told us of what...
...own. Thither he always walked, starting punctually from the bank at four o’clock, and from thence he always walked in the morning, reaching the bank p...
...had so transpired that during the very second class of the day, the lecturer (teacher), suspending the lesson, announced that it was going to be 11 o’clock in a while; therefore , the class will stand up and observe two-minute silence to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. By this time, the turn to the left for entering the bazaar had been reached, the Professor stopp...
..._____ 28 THE ARGUMENT ___ 28 PARAPSYCHOLOGY 28 NAIL ON NAIL ______ 28 VIGILANCE ________ 28 ORDER ____________ 28 PATOMIME ________ 28 CUCKOO CLOCK (I) _ 29 CUCKOO CLOCK (II) 29 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS ______________ 29 APHORISM _________ 29 DISGUST ___________ 29 CLASSIC ___________ 29 HEROISM __________ 29 BAGATELLE _______ 29 PRODUCER ________ 30 INTRODUCT...
...as the best of Archie’s education. Assuredly it did not attract him; assuredly it rather rebutted and depressed. Yet it was still present, unobserved ... ...e’s” and “quo’ she’s,” her voice sinking into a whisper over the supernatural or the horrific; until she would suddenly spring up in affected surprise... ...akfasts, for they knew that Dand must have guided them right, and the rogues could be but little ahead, hot foot for Edinburgh by the way of the Pentl... ... a child. Hastily she did up the massive and shining coils, hast- ily donned a wrapper, and with the rushlight in her hand, stole into the hall. Below...
... as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o’clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again. Harriet ... ...ular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o’clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at ... ...t appropriated nothing. “Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o’clock,” was Mrs. Weston’s parting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and... ...ting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her. “Four o’clock!—depend upon it he will be here by three,” was Mr. Weston’s quick ame... ...ston’s faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o’clock, that she was to think of her at four. “My dear, dear anxious friend,... ...s, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.” The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall. “’Tis twelve; I shall n... ...cumstance to strike him deeply. A man who had been in motion since eight o’clock in the morn- ing, and might now have been still, who had been long ta... ...d you can be always with me. You are always with me.” “Dating from three o’clock yesterday. My perpetual influ- ence could not begin earlier, or you w... ...arlier, or you would not have been so much out of humour before.” “Three o’clock yesterday! That is your date. I thought I had seen you first in Febru...
... for Falk had taken away the Diana at half-past five, and it was now two o’clock. Schomberg wished me to observe that neither of these men would spend...
...so its manner of working. Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only differ ence—there is no frontier. Y.M. It look... ...ld not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As t... ...pany of Susy and Langdon. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o’clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor or phan! My room will b... ...ears and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. FIVE O’CLOCK.—It is all over. WHEN C LARA WENT AWAY two weeks ago to live in Eur... ...to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away. The third picture, as you easily perce... ...reet were there by his will. It is so strange, so unrealizable. At three o’clock the carriages were still streaming by in single file. At three five a... ...as been creeping out well to the rear of the face west of it—and at five o’clock has as sumed a shape that has rather a poor and rude semblance of a ... ... Virgin’s front, the most stupendous dial I am acquainted with, the oldest clock in the world by a couple of million years. I suppose I should not hav... ...ble as a face, which was evidence that the picture was taken before four o’clock in the afternoon, and also evidence that all the photographers have p...
... is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock face for it. Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced aga... ...ng nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch. It was three o’clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his... ...e of the small work table with an air of more entire placidity, until, the clock again giving notice that it was going to strike, she looked up from t... ...for breakfast, I wish you would come down earlier. You can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so difficult to ... ...he was usually free from other callers. But a visitor had come in at one o’clock, and Mr. Bulstrode had so much to say to him, that there was little c... ..., is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not ... ...is face, which was a striking mixture of the shrewd and the mild. At ten o’clock supper was brought in (such were the customs of Middlemarch) and ther... ...should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. But as it was not eleven o’clock, he chose to walk in the brisk air towards the tower of St. Botolph’s... ...se; And let us all to meditation.” —2 Henry VI. T hat night after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Feath erstone’s room, and sat t...
...ooth quiet Sea, I made such Sail that I believe by the next Day at Three a Clock in the Afternoon, when I first made the Land, I could not be less than... ...ours if it did not rain, then employ’d my self to work till about Eleven a Clock, then eat what I had to live on, and from Twelve to Two I lay down to... ...ndle; so that as soon as ever it was dark, which was generally by Seven a Clock, I was oblig’d to go to Bed: I remembred the Lump of Bees wax with wh... ...ep, and wak’d no more ’till by the Sun it must necessarily be near Three a Clock in the Afternoon the next Day; nay, to this Hour, I’m partly of the O... ...r the Island, tho’ not making such fresh Way as I did before. About four a Clock in the Evening, being then within about a League of the Island, I fou... ...said above, not to have made any Attempt till it was Dark: But about Two a Clock, being the Heat of the Day, I found that in short they were all gone ... ...ad to hear, having sat watching upon the Shore for it till near two of the Clock in the Morning. Having thus heard the Signal plainly, I laid me down;...
...of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock you may see the last of us hiving from the college gates, in the glar... ..., not alone with the deliberate series of the seasons, but with man-kind’s clocks and hour-long measurement of time. And thus there was no leisure for... ...es the process as well as the result, the works as well as the dial of the clock. Withal he has his hours of inspi- ration. Apt words come to him as i... ...d Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtain, pipes, spittoons, and eight-day clock; and there again is that impressive dungeon with the chains, which wa... ...f somewhat swollen passion, cuts the knot by the derangement of the hero’s clock. Such personages and incidents belong to the novel of character; they...
... with us After the tree is decorated we dress ourselves for mass. At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to attend mass. When ... ... was supposed to meet my dad at a store called Grandpa Tony’s, at twelve o’clock. I found someone sober enough to drive and talked him into driving me... ...and talked him into driving me to Grandpa Tony’s. I met my dad at twelve o’clock and he took me home. I’m not sure if he knew I was drunk because he d... ...orner near the golf course and take a look at the time. It is now twelve o’clock on the nose. I flick on the blinker, turn onto Greenfield Road and ha...
... as soon as we got out of the creek, and arriv’d there about eight or nine o’clock on the Sunday morn ing, and landed at the Market street wharf. I h... ... breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. I thought it a detest... ...he whole street clean, and I would give her a shil ling; this was at nine o’clock; at 12 she came for the shil ling. From the slowness I saw at firs... ...ng; for, in walking thro’ the Strand and Fleet street one morning at seven o’clock, I observ’d there was not one shop open, tho’ it had been daylight ... ...ere near our port, but a thick fog hid the land from our sight. About nine o’clock the fog began to rise, and seem’d to be lifted up from the water li...
...e of progress may be compared more justly to the hand upon the dial of the clock, which continues to advance as it indicates, than to the stationary m... ...h a priest called Gilles and a woman of the name of Isabeau. It was nine o’clock, a mighty late hour for the period, and evi- dently a fine summer’s n... ...cion it was Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk) hurried them away. It was ten o’clock when they mounted the ladder; it was about midnight before T abary be... ...my window, as I was writing of this very line, and cried, `Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morn- ing.’” Such passages are not to be m... ...s,” says he, “I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o’clock it was an hundred times.” T o go to Vauxhall, he says, and “to hear t...