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Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

Agreed. I only climbed up here to freak out my Fitbit stairs counter. And its all dark up here too.

If it’s not Time by Pink Floyd, it’s not time.

That is a good Sunday afternoon question to ponder but does anyone really know what time it is……?

And, Reg, once the two week transmission arrived, precisely which time zone do you feel would apply?

Also time related, Robert, even a broken clock is right twice a day 🙂

Assuming sound could travel through space it would take almost 2 weeks to tell you the time but if I used a radio, only about 2 or 3 seconds, depending on the time of the year. I thought the climb itself would be more impressive!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

What would happen if you were wearing that watch while climbing a ladder to the moon

I’ll be a lot more impressed if you could tell me what time it is on the moon when you get there.

This preying priest is another reason that the Catholic Church should be disbanded.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Christopher Hitchens………..Ouch!

Some called him a militant atheist for that above quote. Others see it as him dealing with the realities of life.

The watch, over time (T), is losing energy even if it is not functioning  internally and so entropy is increasing even though the system is not doing any “work”. If it was functioning internally and was doing “work” it would reach a high entropy state a lot faster.

I am correct?

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Now I have another question. Does a wound-up watch that’s not moving internally (say from some malfunction) weigh more than an energy-spent watch?

Without doing any math my first thought is “yes” it does weigh more because of the stored potential energy.

I was reasonably conscious of having posted it before but it is worth another look 🙂 I spent two full days at the Schrodinger lectures.  Time and money well spent.

Did you get to see the book link in today’s school?

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

“Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults o…[Read more]