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Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Credit: Simulation by Ceverino, Dekel & Primack
"Is there any place in space which hasn’t been affected by time ? The answer is yes. Thanks to some very awesome research, the W. M. Keck Observatory and a team of scientists have recently located two clumps of primordial gas which may very well have had its origin within minutes of the Big Bang.
How do we know these gas clouds are so special? In this case, they are simply too disseminated to enable stellar birth and contain no heavy metals which would support it. These diaphanous regions are pure hydrogen and helium… along with a heavier isotope, deuterium. This combination could mean the two billion year old regions are pure – never involved in the star-forming process. An exciting discovery ? You bet. The clouds could have possibly survived in an unchanged state – giving us a look at what may have occurred at the dawn of time."
Danny Hillis has designed a binary mechanical computer that keeps time for 10,000 years. After years making the fastest computing machines on the planet, he and Stewart Brand have created one of the slowest.
The Clock of the Long Now is both a myth and a mechanism, designed to teach the future about us. One episode from Sun Microsystems' Emmy® Award winning series "Digital Journey: Stories From a Networked Planet," the segment helps audiences understand computing principles.
The Long Now Foundation
"Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world."
