The Quest for the Elusive Chronon


	The Quest for the Elusive Chronon
LorisKnight
9-1-2007 3:07 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ecf488c5-dc4f-4fbf-88ff-e715f16689a4/DC0A2E66-1822-49ED-BAFE-C7492A14FBCA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/the_quest_for_the_elusive_chronon/" href="http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/the_quest_for_the_elusive_chronon/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.brainsturbator.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/the_quest_for_the_elusive_chronon/"><P><IMG align="left" title="Time Itself Used as a Weapon The Filth Grant Morrison" alt="Time Itself Used as a Weapon The Filth Grant Morrison" src="http://www.brainsturbator.com/img/time_itself.jpg" />In the past century, human science has advanced beyond anyone’s wildest dreams: we’ve put humans into space, eliminated entire cities with a single bomb, industrialized the genocide process, poisoned our entire planet, and figured out how to stick over 5000 albums into a small plastic box.  We have peered billions of light years into the cosmos, we have unraveled the atom and discovered quantum weirdness, and even transcribed the human genome.  As a direct consequence of all this glittering achievement, scientists are understandably <EM>pretty cocky these days.</EM>  However, I would like to pass anyone reading this the Silver Bullet to instantly deflate the ego of anyone who’s exponentially more intelligent than you are: <STRONG>just ask them to explain what time is.</STRONG>
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Time is the single most universally <EM>constant</EM> of physical constants, and yet we barely know anything at all about it.  Here in 2007, <STRONG>we still don’t even have a working definition of what it is.</STRONG>  
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