This week’s theme was the “scale of time increments”; that there are “approximately 365.242199 days in a year. But that number is changing…constantly. Atomic clocks count 9,192,631,770 cycles per second of the cesium-133 atoms to maintain a precise second. Time operates differently depending on the scale of the time increment. Our perception of time is often bound by measurements of time that we cannot perceive. How can we reinterpret these out-of-scale increments into increments we can understand?”
Our assignment was to imagine a relational clock that corresponds to a time scale that is not normally perceivable to humans. (more…)