Time Warp

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Farewell to all of you in the past. 

 

[Jamie123]

I think that's a radio controlled clock. We have one in our church coffee area. It's picking up a timing signal from somewhere (the UK transmitter is in Rugby I believe) and its adjusting itself to the correct time after someone changed the battery.

Sorry to bust your bubble. The time warp theory is more fun

P.S. I checked, and as usual I'm in a "time-warp" of my own: the "Rugby Clock" was shut down in 2007. The current UK time signal comes from Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria, which is run by the National Physical Laboratory (which is only about a mile from where I am now). The signal is based on two caesium clocks and is accurate to 1 part in 500,000,000,000. The North American equivalent is the WWVB station in Colorado, which is more accurate still: less than 1 part in 1,000,000,000,000. Which means you'd have to wait about 30,000 years for the time to be wrong by 1 second.

Edited January 14, 2020 by Jamie123

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

3 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

I think that's a radio controlled clock. We have one in our church coffee area. It's picking up a timing signal from somewhere (the UK transmitter is in Rugby I believe) and its adjusting itself to the correct time after someone changed the battery.

Sorry to bust your bubble. The time warp theory is more fun

P.S. I checked, and as usual I'm in a "time-warp" of my own: the "Rugby Clock" was shut down in 2007. The current UK time signal comes from Anthorn Radio Station in Cumbria, which is run by the National Physical Laboratory (which is only about a mile from where I am now). The signal is based on two caesium clocks and is accurate to 1 part in 500,000,000,000. The North American equivalent is the WWVB station in Colorado, which is more accurate still: less than 1 part in 1,000,000,000,000. Which means you'd have to wait about 30,000 years for the time to be wrong by 1 second.

Fake news does not change the fact that I am currently one day in the future.

[Jamie123]

11 minutes ago, Emmanuel Goldstein said:

Fake news does not change the fact that I am currently one day in the future.

OK - please tell me all the horses that came first this afternoon. (Preferably ones with odds greater than 10:1!)

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

2 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

OK - please tell me all the horses that came first this afternoon. (Preferably ones with odds greater than 10:1!)

I only traveled one day into the future yesterday. Now it is Tuesday for me.

[Vort]

I like to tell my children, "I have traveled through time to this moment from the year 1963 to bring you this message: Clean your room."

Usually I'm the only one laughing, but what can I say? It cracks me up.

[anatess2]

One of these days, I will find a way to travel from the Philippines and arrive in the USA yesterday.

[Jamie123]

13 hours ago, Vort said:

I like to tell my children, "I have traveled through time to this moment from the year 1963 to bring you this message: Clean your room."

Usually I'm the only one laughing, but what can I say? It cracks me up.

I was going to tell a time-travelling joke, but you guys didn't like it.