Yeah, but in 1.8 trillion years, you’re going to be a minute late for everything.
Imagine being 15 minutes late to the heat death of the universe. Unacceptable.
Damn right, you’d miss the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster drink before the dinner. Not ok.
I mean but this should save me some hassle from my current clock that I need to adjust every 10 billion years.
The Germans will be furious
*the Swiss
Just stick a post-it with: “TODO 01/01/30000002024: set one second forward”
… or one second back, that’s the problem.
Does it still need a groundhog to tell it when spring is?
Yes, of course.
But the groundhog will be made out of gallium arsenide.
What do you set it to?
In clocks like this, the “set time” is often irrelevant. It’s more important to know exactly how much time has passed since the last time the clock was “checked.” If you’re running a radio transmitter at 6ghz, that’s 6 billion cycles per second. If you synch your transmitter to your clock once per second, it had better be accurate to the billionth of a second.
This. Clocks like this are for measuring duration in a scientific context.
prove it
Remindme! 30 billion years
Just give me a little bit of time, I got this. You’re gonna see!
