time
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How The Time Of Sunrise And Sunset Varies Around The World
Timezones are strange old things, especially the way they prescribe one time to thousands of kilometres of land mass. This visualisation shows which parts of the world experience unusually early and late hours of daylight as a result.
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The Inside Story Of How Olympic Timekeeping Is So Amazingly Precise
Three one-thousandths of a second is less than 1/10th of a blink, less than 1/100th of a heartbeat. But if you’re a speedskater, 0.003 seconds can be the difference between gold and silver. So how are Olympics timekeepers able to get such ridiculous precision and accuracy? For the inside scoop, we talked to Omega’s Peter…
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Why Is Time Slower In Space Rockets?
You’ve probably heard that if you get in a rocket ship and fly fast, time will slow down. But, unless you’ve majored in physics, you probably don’t quite know why. Fortunately this video does a great job of explaining the phenomenon.
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Flies See The World In Matrix-Style Slow Motion
If you’ve ever sat puzzling over a fly’s ability to outmanoeuvre your swift slap of death almost every. single. time — puzzle no more. According to science, you’re just measly Agent Smith to the bug’s Neo; new research shows that a creature’s perception of time is directly related to its size, meaning flies live in…