What Time is it Mr. Wolf?

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ibis wrote:

Helium Three wrote:: There were reciprocal service arrangements in place between the Irish and the Indian civil service that went back a very long time. Not many people remember that these days.

Well, no, they wouldn't...the invention of writing, for example, will have swept many of the old-timers away.

Helium Three wrote:: Even lowly ranked established civil servants in both places (quantum mechanics crops up in this story too but I digress) knew intuitively that time and rubber bands shared phenomenal properties of elasticity.

Hmm...I wonder if meetings have identifiable event horizons?

It is too early to say.

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Helium Three wrote:

ibis wrote:

Helium Three wrote:: There were reciprocal service arrangements in place between the Irish and the Indian civil service that went back a very long time. Not many people remember that these days.

Well, no, they wouldn't...the invention of writing, for example, will have swept many of the old-timers away.

Helium Three wrote:: Even lowly ranked established civil servants in both places (quantum mechanics crops up in this story too but I digress) knew intuitively that time and rubber bands shared phenomenal properties of elasticity.

Hmm...I wonder if meetings have identifiable event horizons?

It is too early to say.

Only by this clock!