> What time it is in Tokyo, when it's midnight in New York? > I can't point to the moon either, but I'm working on it. Stellarium and Celestia a big help. OMSI too.
> Outside the context the concept of the history of our confrontation with > time and timekeeping, you are talking about trivialities. > As in Trivium? Not really. Astra, along with Angulos (angles, geometry) was a Quadrivium subject. Still is. > When my students have begun to understand something of the hidden depth > connected to these questions, as for example as presented interestingly > in "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps - Empires of Time" by Peter Galison > 2003 and only then, might I allow a one word answer to the question of > what time is it in Tokyo? > > Do you understand what time it is in Tokyo? > > According to whom? > > Art > According to a network of atomic clocks synched with GPS satellites and monitored in Japan as surely as in Colorado. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
