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~y4 MEASURING TIME the beginning and end of either seems:" : ....... ".... :." ....: .2. . : .. . " % : 2 -- •
c~nvenientlv call time. valon Laundr
vc(i l~'" t3y W.~--. Allen to us a recognizable unit of what we
1[ clOtogical Feature Service Whatever the attitude of the lowest
TrY[btheh}ast forty years Ihave crossed savage mav be it is certain that more
intelligent "savages, as well as civilized
...Jl~s. ~"uartes of "time Zones" many man find other cyclical units and eels-
- ik-t'~a°ut the change of time never Dry Cleaning and Pressing
• =.--u In - tions hips which can be applied in
at |tit ~ Y attention particularly. Re-
== IL2.~ made an automobile tri into measuring time. The moon's phases
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1£~'~a and the change of rune at the and the seasons appear to be recog- S.C.I. Co. Laundry Dept.
_ ~.resi~ of a river made considerable nized and used in discussing and plan-
,r ~ ~0a .on me, probably because it ning the affairs of intelligent peoples
I~rt~.etlnRe relation to ,ny arriving all around the world. But even in civ- Work called for and delivered.
Jib;t~in destinations at meal times ilized countries there is a strong ten-
~r~'~re ni ht All m crossings dency to use some striking event as One Day Service if i equired.
at~re ha~ 'been ma~ty by traina beginning for measuring a period of 1 erasCash
i~°rding to routine schedule, thus ti:ne. Thus one may find in certain
sern!° remain unnoticed because communities that time is measured in
• "~mr^,. glance to a ustomed routine, so many weeks or months or years ~m~
t"L'~lq (Whatever t~ec reason) on this from a great flood or a great drouth Pit o
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• Ik,s got to thinking about time, or a great pestilence.
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,t.)t~~ relation to time and man's el- Apparently there are scores or hun-
"-In . ' deeds of different ways of measuring
~'! ~. ensure time I even got so
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• ~£~a,p try to find some satisfying time, depending on the needs and in-
11~ lo,~lo.a of what time is, but soon terests of an individual or a group of
. tllj itS, ,el the speculation. Perhaps individuals. Many of our ways would Itw kth
~Bl~tL°w what time is I must con- be useless to a savage and many of •
''10f'a~iI do not. I have tried think- his ways would be useless to us, but discount on a or ru]lour
~r~itv tIne as a measurable part of underlying all attempt at measurement
I[~e out that does not appear to there seems to be the practical idea 15 C
Al~atly ,anywhere, because I fail to that time is an interval between two Call Office--- 1 atahna Ave.
:)lill~ t. qefinite ,I fixed mark in eter events or between the beginning and
j, 1-"r0,,. . 1~. " ending of a series of events and that
IP"o'~" whzeh to begin to measure.
~s ~"ristian Era" is surmosed to be this interval can be subdivided indefi-
I["Ured, ,-. nitely, e.g. into hours,minutes and
IL~ zrom the birth of Christ but
t' Seem . • '.
[ti~s .. to be certam ser,ous dxffi- seconds, and minute fractions thereof.
.l~his~b°ut fixing that pointin hu- Some years ago many of us were
llt ter not to mention thevastly startled and amazed by the suggestion
lll~t. Itheulties of fixing itin rela- of theorists that time could be re-
~1,t[£.~ eternity. . versed and that history might be re-
~';v~evt~, I did not g,ve much atten- peated by processes similar to those
,~hips ~se questions of timerela- used in manipulation of a moving pic-
~c[ ... eeause I recognize them as ture fihn. In actual practice we need
ti.the'uY comprehension. Approach- not be worried because no theorist, or
~1, ~f Ll~roblems of time from the other agent can really manipulate time,
l~lv UUman experience it is consid- no matter how plausible his juggling
~feasier to get some kind of an of its man-made units may appear to
IterraWhat we ordinarily mean by be.
Ii~a' Most of us resemble prim- Because the day is so convenient,
Etch^u (and probably most beasts)we tend to use it in all ordinary af-
~};~raz,ng in our existence recur- fairs even when the results of its use
~l~t'~n,°raena (cycles) which we call become absurd. For example, a trav-
eler uses it on Iris journev around the ~5
world although he knows that it makes Unzversal-Star"
r:lt him seem to lose a dav if going east
C laltfla lslondLMge,F.&l.M, and gain a da,, if going west I4e Tarpon Tuna Deep Sea or Ocean Reel
~-4-7-', .... ii .... could avoid this absurdity by measur-
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