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Monday, August 01, 2005
Not been posting for quite some time..main reason is : I was busy. And i ended up sick. And my computer lagged plus spoiled. Plus even when i go online I can only go to websites that are related to my school work.
Reason why I am posting now :
1) I am doing this secretly ( meaning without my parents knowledge. They think I am still doing D.N.T)
2) If i do not blog now I may never have the chance to do it in the future.
3) I finally have something useful to post. (though boring; Its about clocks)
Next is bout' clocks
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Does anybody really know what time it is? 30 DEC 1998. Do you assume time tomorrow will be just like time today? Sorry to break the news: It's not a safe time to take time for granted. Part of the problem results from the upcoming upheaval in the calendar that has computer whizzes howling about the millennium bug and warning that the lowly calendar, our time-tested method for counting long stretches of time, could cause plane crashes and power outages. There's also malaise about when the third millennium will commence: in 2000, with all those nice zeroes? Or in 2001, as calendar purists insist?
You may know that 2000 is a leap year. But that makes it a double exception: years divisible by four are leap years, except for centuries, double-except for every fourth century.
And as The Why Files explained, time slows down under intense gravity and velocity.
Sounds to us Why Filers like somebody's messing with time, and we don't like it. We always assumed that time, like tide, waits for nobody -- then we learned that on Dec. 31, 1998, scientists will splice an extra second into time -- because the Earth is running slower than the atomic clocks. How do they work?
So let's give one final glance at our watches and plunge into the difficult subject of time. Damn the cliches -- full speed ahead.
The starting gun Aha, 2000, the start of a new millennium. The launching pad for millenialists, the anchor point for our calendar.
Oops! Technically, 2000 is not the start of anything, but rather the end of the second millennium. The third millennium actually starts in 2001, which, if not exactly a round number, is 2000 years after the calendar began -- in year 1.
Doing the math, we see the second century began in 101, and the second millennium in 1001. If you take it from there, you'll figure out jolly quick when the third millennium will commence.
The problem is that we've grown accustomed to saying a century starts in the "00" year, when it really starts in the "01" year.
If this bugs you, look at the bright side: 2000 will be the first (and only) year in the 20th century that actually begins with "20"!
+ [ Stef-fer-nee] r e m e m b e r agains + 8:42 AM
