10 November 2008

My Two Week Goal.

So, here it is.
3 concentric rings of 60 clocks each.
-The lowest ring has clocks with only second hands and each clock is a second behind the clock before. This ring spins 360 degrees in 1 minute.
-The middle ring has clocks with only minuted hands and each clock is a minute behind the clock before. This ring spins 360 degrees in 1 hour.
-The upper ring has clocks with only hour hands and each clock is 24 minutes behind the clock before. This ring spins 360 degrees in 1 day.

The idea is that because a clock uses physical constraints to measure time, i.e; the hands moving in space to show time, we reverse the process, such that the movement of a clock itself makes time stationary through space being stationary. If you view any one point on the rings and align any three clocks vertically, they would always show the same time. This proves not only the relative nature of time but also the fact that time is merely another dimension that can be manipulated, remeasured and described as anyone could wish.






The thing will have to be powered by three separate motors, each running at different speeds and I have set myself a week and a half to construct this 2 meter monstrosity.

Is this a step too far? Setting myself impossible limits on an improbable project? Perhaps this will be the one that criples me? Never.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's ingenious.

Have you seen the corpus clock?
It's more symbolic than actually useful but mechanically quite interesting.

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/communications/1522.html

Good luck.

-V.

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