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-Major Exhibits Royal Greenwich Observatory: Hosts "The Story of Time" exhibit, December 1, 1999 to September 24, 2000. Quoting from their website: "This is the only major, international, object-based exhibition planned for the Millennium Year; appropriately, it will be held in Greenwich, at the Prime Meridian,the point from which the new Millennium will begin." Also, take a look at the Information Leaflets. For example, #23 is on sundials.
-What Time is it? Some Answers Today Date and Time: Every answer you could think of. This page gives you the date and time according to both traditional and non-traditional systems, from Gregorian and Chinese to "post scriptum Ulysses." Links are provided to calendar pages which use systems from around the world, accross cultures, and through time. Very complete. The Times of Our Lives: This page introduces Socio-chronology, the study of the many perspectives in which humans accross cultures experience time. Forbes ASAP's Big Issue III: Time: The November 30, 1998 issue is devoted to time. Fifty-Seven wide ranging thinkers discuss time in a variety of interesting articles. Times Across the World: Current local times accross the world are given. The Official Source of Time Used in the United States: "The Department of the Navy serves as the country's official timekeeper, with the Master Clock facility at the Washington Naval Observatory." &emdash;National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993. This page is the home page of the Time Service Department. Countdown to the Millennium: Days, hours, seconds until the real millennium or the psuedo-millennium. Also, calculate the time past between two events. -Calendars ISO 8601: A summary of the international standard for date and time notation. Helpful in particular for transnational, scientific discourse. The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos!: "Comprehensive categorized calendar catalog currently containing countless correlating connections & calzone recipes!" Calendar: A brief history of the calendar with linked references, both internal for depth and external for further exploration. Hermetic Systems: Focuses upon the use of calendar systems, with links to conversion software. Calendar Links: A collection of links for further exploration. Zapotec Calendar/Calendario Zapoteco: A bilingual exploration of the Zapotec Calendar. Calendario Azteca: A study on the Aztec Calendar. Also available in English. -Horology : Theory & Practice Horology - The Index ( Clock Watch and Time Museums) A worldwide list: This site contains internal links which give a complete overview of horology, the study of time and timekeeping. Heroes of Horology: Take a look at what they looked like. No text. Newsgroup: Via Usenet, alt.horology. Much of the discussion focuses on restoration and the general business of clocks. Still, the list is interactive, as all lists, providing opportunity to express opinions and ask questions. -History of Clocks A Walk Through Time: A brief stroll through the history of timekeeping. This page was designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to trace the evolution of timekeeping from ancient devices to their own, contemporary calibrations. Greeks: Thales to Ptolemy: History of timekeeping and its devices in ancient Greece. -Evolution of the Scientific Understanding of Time
Museo della Specola: English version of the home page for Museo della Specola. This page includes internal links to text on the history of atronomical discover, with particular focus on that history in Bologne, Italy. Very useful in tracing the intellectual history of scientific discovery relating to time and time measurement.
Time Magazine's "Person of the Century": Albert Einstein. The December 31, 1999 issue. Einstein Exhibit: Maintained by the American Institute of Physics, this site contains some interesting material on Einstein, from original papers to a recording of him explaining his famous formula stating the equivalence of mass and energy. More Distinctions: This page gives many definitions related to time and astronomy. Each definition given links to a more extended, cross-referenced definition. Good for comparison and clarification. -Biological Timing The Center for Biological Timing: This consortium, based at the University of Virginia, maintains a website devoted to circadian clocks, including their history. You can find there a discussion of the biomathematics of clocks, as well as a review of the pathbreaking breakthroughs that came in 1998. The Tyranny of Time: This article appeared in the December 18, 1999 issue of the Economist, under the heading Bioclocks in the Christmas Special section. The article discusses time as the fourth dimension in human biology. -The Fourth Dimension Travel into the Fourth Dimension: The Fourth Dimension Website was created by a student with an interest in mathematics and science. He presents different theories of the 4th dimension, time travel, and the nature of the universe. Like all material you find on the web, you should be sure to check this one for accuracy. A Geometry Forum on the Fourth Dimension: This website houses a Newsgroup's discussion on the fourth dimension. An interest in Hyperspace: This website includes information on hypercubes and platonic solids. It also offers a list on other interesting sites on topics such as Higher-Dimensional Geometry. Presenting: A Hypercube: This website was suggested by one of your classmates. In it we find a Hypercube cut open and represented in 3-space. A Collection of Hyper-Dimensional Links : This link was also recommended by one of your classmates. It contains an extensive list of links and Java Applets.
-Time Travel A Course on Time Travel: A 28-lesson course on how to become a time traveler, including meditation and progressive techniques. Hyper Dimensional Resonator, sold here: This website offers the Hyper Dimensional Resonator: a device that will allow you, or so they claim, to travel into the past or explore the future. Time travel in the Movies: This website lists movies that explore the possibilities of time travel.
-Articles of Interest Scientists Slow Light To a Crawl By TOM KIRCHOFER Associated Press Writer, February 19, 1999: This is the article, for which we do not have a link yet, that speaks of the experiments with the speed of light conducted at the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge and Harvard University. In commenting on this article, Professor Mook has said: "As I understand this, it is just a super, super refractive index. Light is being slowed down by passage through a medium--no big deal. What is big news here is that the speed is incredibly slow. But there is nothing to undo Einstein's second postualte or Maxwell's equations. Actually the second postulate is just a special case of the first postulate: the laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames. Since Maxwell's equations predict a speed for light that is independent of the motion of the source or reciever of the light, Einstein's second postulate follows immediately. And there has never, ever been any evidence that Maxwell's equations are in error. They are the only part of "classical" physics that has survived relativity theory unscathed."
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