Time's Mysteries Part I: Marking Time

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2009

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Time's a mystery, yet we've invented clever ways to capture it. From sundials to atomic clocks, trace the history of time-keeping. Also, discover the surprising accuracy of nature's dating schemes - from the decay of carbon to laying down tree rings. Plus, why the "New York minute" stretches to hours in Rio de Janeiro: cultural differences in the perception of time. Guests: Chris Turney - Geologist at the University of Wollongong, Australia and the author of Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened Demetrios Matsakis - Head of the U.S. Naval Observatory's Time Service Steven Jefferts - Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado Robert Levine - Psychologist at California State University in Fresno and the author of A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, or How Every Culture Keeps Time Just a Little Bit Differently Norman Mohr - Owner, Mohr Clocks, Mountain View, California Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.8	That's What's New with Wired, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm standing here at Moore's clocks in Mountain View surrounded by, well, clocks.
1:19.2	The walls are covered with clocks.
1:20.8	They're grandfather clocks standing all across the floor here, there are table
1:24.6	model clocks behind me, and some of those rotating ball clocks that you can pick up in Europe
1:31.5	in a big display case across me. I've always liked clocks. I don't know if it's the mechanisms
1:36.0	or simply the fact that they reflected the processes of life itself.
1:40.9	Mr. Moore, this is your clock store.
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