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I’ve got, as it may be abundently clear, a few issues. Not any real bad ones, just a few small ones that don’t have much of an impact on my life. One of those is a strong dislike for unfinished timers. Particullary on microwaves – where someone has had a timer going or had been cooking some food and stopped it before it went off – thus obscuring the clock that we would otherwise see there. Though I can resist it, I’d really rather hit that clear button and go back to the clock. I also enjoy setting clocks that have lost their way due to power outage or daylight savings time.<\/p>\n

And I think I’ve finally figured out why these hidden or disrupted clocks bother me. On more than one occasion – and more frequently with the clock in the bathroom – I’ve glanced at an analog clock just after it ticks over to the next second. It may not have even come to a full halt, but I’ve caught it at the critical time and have watched the whole second from start to finish. <\/p>\n

And, I’ve got to tell you – that’s a long freaking time if you’re paying attention. It feels like more than a second passes before the next tick of the clock. <\/p>\n

At the quantum level, observation changes things. That’s one of the reasons a quantum computer – as super cool and powerful as it would be – is tough to build. If you look at it, things change.<\/p>\n

And I guess a fear – or strong concern – is that if I hadn’t been watching the clock at that instant, would it have gone on forward? Maybe time only exists in a linear fashion because we’re watching it.<\/p>\n

There are, fortuanatly, a lot of people here on planet earth and many of them are more obsessed with time than I am. Maybe that was my second to watch, to keep track of thing and keep them moving forward.<\/p>\n

And if I can’t see the foward progression of time – like on a stopped timer on a microwave – what if I miss the next instant that I’m supposed to observe? <\/p>\n

Would everything… stop?<\/p>\n

It doesn’t keep me up at night – but it does give me pause. And whenever I see a stopped clock, I try to make it right. Just in case I need it…<\/p>\n

back to work…<\/p>\n

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