Joel Klebanoff: Stuff & Nonsense

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Archive for the ‘time’ Category

Daylight Saving —

In most of Canada and the United States we switched to Daylight Saving Time today. Or, rather than doing it today, you might have moved your clocks ahead last night before going to bed if you’re an eager beaver. (As an aside, when people use the expression “eager beaver,” they’re referring to the animal, right? [...]

Cheating Time —

As I understand it, according to Albert Einstein, if you hop into a spaceship, accelerate to the speed of light and travel for a year at that speed before decelerating and returning to earth, everyone you know will be long dead when you get back. This is explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Among other [...]