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| Subject: Re: What Time is it Mr. Wolf? Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:20 am | |
| - 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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| Subject: Re: What Time is it Mr. Wolf? Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:25 am | |
| - 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! |
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