Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
-----Original Message----- From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk@qwest.net] Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:21 PM To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton' Cc: edu-sig@python.org; rev_anna_r@yahoo.com Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
knowing what time it is in Tokyo, when it's midnight in New York (reflexively, like the multiplication table used to be) -- so you don't wake someone asleep, so you don't miss your plane to OSCON or whatever.
What time it is in Tokyo, when it's midnight in New York? Outside the context the concept of the history of our confrontation with time and timekeeping, you are talking about trivialities. 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
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
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