Nian Beast: The Phenomenon That Appears When the Year Changes and Is Blocked by Signals
On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.
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On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.
On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.
On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.
On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.
On 23 September 2010, NIST announced that two aluminum atomic clocks separated by 33 centimetres did not tick at the same rate. The higher clock ran slightly faster. The experiment had nothing to do with Lunar New Year, but it destroys a convenient intuition: time is not a perfectly flat background that behaves identically everywhere and under every condition.