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as society became more complex, more accurate subdivisions of time were required.
Hafele-Keating aeroplane experiment was based on caesium).
and this is important since with only one single clock, you cannot know whether your clock is showing the correct time or not."
This result seems to contradict everything we intuitively understand about motion. But what are its full implications for reality?
He believed that the time when he "clicked his fingers" represented the same absolute time for all observers in the universe.
True, the block universe model implies that the circumstance and time of your death has already been decided, but it also states that the moment of your death has no more importance than any other time of your life.
the boundary between the internal processes of our minds and the external processes of the universe is a very blurred boundary. Human beings are not the isolated entities we often imagine we are.
Life has the ability to give birth to new life. And that new life, that new baby, appears perfect and untainted. So how can this apparent circumvention of the second law of thermodynamics be explained?
