Re: Stewart Brand's The Clock of the Long Now

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 16:02:15 MST


Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> Heck, I'd rather have a humongous digital clock
> on the surface of the moon, ....................
> .............. ("Don't tread on GOD's Clock").

Your clock is smarter, given the cosmological
origin of time [time arrow < retarded Green's
function < outwards radiation < from stars < in
the dark, cold and, perhaps, empty universe].

And, actually, the italian version of his site is
http://www.delocazione.com/longnow/
that is to say: de-location(e).

-scerir

"Time, itself, is not an observable, if the Hamiltonian is bounded"
"The state of the clock is included in the state of the Universe"



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