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Originally posted by patternfinder
This is all great stuff, but, how does it explain self awareness??? what process do we use to develop an understanding of how vibrational propagation develops into self identification?
True but the errors now seems to be getting so small it's incredible: '
Originally posted by bone13
Mehcanical clocks of the day where never the same, set two identical clocks at the same time one will always run slow, now you have the atomic chock, in sync with internet time and still the clocks will run slow. 1 million clocks and they still are incorrect in the time they show
The second is defined as 9,192,631,770 periods of the caesium-133 atom, and is currently realised at NPL to an accuracy of one second in 15 million years.
Scientists are currently working on technology to increase this accuracy to 1 second in 10 billion years.
I did notice that Roddenberry came up with the term "star date" which they seemed to mention in the captain's log, which I assumed was not the same as "Earth date". But synchronizing clocks with Earth could be tricky after you've been gallivanting around the galaxy.
Originally posted by bone13
Ever wonder how the mission clocks where fine tuned on star trek, earth time when leaving earth, time at vulcan and the return trip home all the same time in hours, minutes, seconds