>>>Of course you can always go to http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/software.html and download some software to synchronize your computer's clock with real time. *g*
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>>>Best,
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>>Doug,
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>>But what is "real time"? I mean all those electrons running around inside the computer at speeds of light and beyond are causing a wrap in the time fabric and that may be why the clock beats to its own pacer. Stick in a piece of slow hardware and the time fabric is totaly confused, should time go faster because of the slow hardware ro slower because of the fast electrons.
Hi Doug,
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>>All it takes is one tachyon in there and everything gets all messed up. I mean those damn tachyons, they are always getting where they are going before they leave where they are so they are always someplace that they aren't. This can really mess up the clock.
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>>Stick a high gravity effect into this soup and who knows what will happen.
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>Jim, et al,
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>For the very serious minded here's a cool link. (http://www.ldolphin.org/constc.shtml) A fellow by the name of Lambert Dolphin has written a paper ON THE CONSTANCY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT and how that relates to time. Here's a quote:
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>ABSTRACT
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>The possibility that the velocity of light, c, is not a fixed constant is reconsidered by statistical analysis of the historical measurements collected from four sources. Our hypothesis testing of the selected data shows the measured value of the velocity of light has decreased over the past 250 years. Furthermore, the probability of some systematic or experimental problem was found to be low. Brief analysis of constants other than c suggests that those constants which involve atomic phenomena and units of time are also apparently changing. A third set of constants with no obvious dependence on c were analyzed and show no apparent variability with time. A variable velocity of light implies that atomic clocks and dynamical clocks do not run in step-that atomic time has been decreasing with respect to dynamical time.
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>HTH.. *g*
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>Best,
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>DD

If "String Theory" proves itself out, all this is a mute point. The laws of physics as we know them will be turned on their head and need to be rewritten. I for one, would like to live long enough to see this. :<)