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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Perfectly accurate clocks turn out to be impossible

Can the passage of time be measured precisely, always and everywhere? The answer will upset many watchmakers. A team of physicists have just shown that when we are dealing with very large accelerations, no clock will actually be able to show the real passage of time, known as 'proper time.'

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1jcqNXD
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