Measuring time might not seem like that complex of a thing. After all, we rely on simply counting seconds between the "then" and the "now." But when you really start to break time down to the quantum ...

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WE cannot measure time in that sense in which we measure other things. Time has been very happily denned as the great independent variable of all change; and it is by watching matter in motion, which ...