On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:40:26 -0500, "Jimmie D"
wrote:

Yes, time is about as much related to the vibration of a cesium atom as it
is to the pendulum im my grandfather clock.

Hi Jimmie,

How very true. There is quite a bit of fluff about cesium. So much
so that you've hit the nail on the head with the pendulum.

Dare we anticipate those who will crow that there was no time before
the pendulum swung? Or that if one swung on the moon, this
demonstrates proof positive how time varies? FEH! The pendulum does
not make time, nor does time push the pendulum. There is no
causality.

No, Time is dependant on sand! Before the pendulum there was the sand
clock - aka Hour Glass. The ancients long ago recognized that if they
didn't keep turning the hour glass, that the end of time would come
(in eastern philosophy this was transmuted into the towers of Hanoi).
This, in fact, was the origin of the honorable office of the clock
watcher - his mission was to turn the glass before time fully ran out.
Of course, over time (an irony), this noble occupation became
prostituted through mechanization, and the office holder of clock
watcher became an object of scorn and ridicule. RIP

Some may argue that sand has no causal relationship with time at all,
but they are sadly mistaken. Simple observation will reveal that if
you cleaned your carpets last week, they need cleaning again of all
the sand (dust, dirt) that has descended into their fibers.

Run your finger along any bookshelf to witness this vivid proof. Sand.
Anyone who lives with a wife who keeps bookshelves (bric-a-brac,
picture frames, your shack) so clean of sand can agree that their life
is condemned to a timeless purgatory.

Look at any beach, the sand was once a mountain and a mountain it will
become again (dunes are the modeling software). Naturally you won't
be around long enough to watch all the sand do this, as this hour
glass measures a different period. The proof of this observation is
found with those who go to the shore for vacation, and at its end look
plaintively across the beach and wonder:
"Where has all my vacation time gone?"

If there had been no sand, there would have been no summer vacation at
the shore. Sand's causal tie to time is absolute and irrefutable.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC