The day religious zealots have always warned us about has come: science has finally run amok! Scientists (obviously of a "mad" sort) have devised a "quantum logic clock" that is 100,000 times more precise than standard atomic clocks. What madness! What hubris!
"The quantum logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminium ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect the slowing of time predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity." -Tia Ghose (2010.02.08 Wired.co.uk)
Sure, that all sounds fine and dorky and seems perfectly harmless but I'm appalled. I, for one, don't want to know the time to the second for the next 3.7 billion years! Quite honestly, pocket watches are too accurate for me. This new (il)logic clock is an outright abomination! What sane person needs this level of punctuality? Resist, comrades!
You gotta fight... for your right... to be tardy!
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just because you know your late doesn't mean you can't or won't be
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