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A brief history of time – as told by a watchmaker
Mikhail Leonov/Shutterstock Jaq Prendergast, Birmingham City University I once restored a 1950s timepiece for a customer who waxed…
Keeping Track: The History of Timekeeping
What time is it? You may instantly open your phone’s lock screen now and peek at what pops…
How Do We See All the Way Back In Time?
Physicists have managed to think of several theoretical ways to approach nearly every extreme we can think of…
What Time Is It… And How Did We Ever Figure It Out?
The endless streams of communication happening all around the world all at once necessitates specialized measures to make…
Time travel could be possible, but only with parallel timelines
If time travel were possible, it would mean the existence of parallel timelines. (Shutterstock) Barak Shoshany, Brock University…
Physicists Just Measured the Effects of Time Dilation Down to a Millimeter
True to Albert Einstein’s calculations all the way back in 1915, gravity does indeed have an effect on…