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	Time to test time

wildcat

11-12-2008 6:09 AM

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time, test time, particle physics, quantum mechanics

wildcat says:

“If it's true, it's Nobel-prize-winning stuff”

Karsten Danzmann
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

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11-13-2008 9:38 AM

gzuckier

that would be the time between when you look down at something on the floor of your car, and the light then turns green

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