Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Holidays, London 2014, Science & Nature
…The Observatory Time-Ball
The first public time signal was broadcast from the roof of Flamsteed House in 1833. The idea of dropping a ball at a predetermined time was the brainchild of Captain Wauchope, RN, and was tested at the Naval College at Portsmouth before Maudslay & Field were commissioned to install the first Greenwich time-ball [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 10th 2014
Filed under Holidays, Lucerne 2013
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2014
Filed under Science & Nature
…the addition of a leap second…
This year’s leap second—the 26th to be added to UTC since 1972—exists because time was traditionally based on a full rotation of the Earth and was related to heavenly bodies, which defined the length of the day.
This rotational time, called UT1, divides the [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jun 30th 2012
Filed under This & That
Over at Vision and Verb I invite you to sit and rest a while with me.
Comments Off CherryPie on Oct 8th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes
Today was a bit of a messy day. It included sorting out complicated emergency requirements (at work) and meetings (at work) and a dentist appointment (at lunch time). I also seemed to get caught up in a strange time-warp. I left the office at 16.40 to arrive at Weight Watchers at 17.00. [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2011
