{"id":3521,"date":"2008-09-19T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/19\/the-corpus-clock\/"},"modified":"2010-06-20T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:35:31","slug":"the-corpus-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/19\/the-corpus-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corpus Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This splendid clock is unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking later today at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. If it hadn’t cost a million pounds to develop I’d probably be demanding that someone find me one for Christmas. The mechanical monster perched at the top is explained by its creator<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It is terrifying, it is meant to be,” said John C Taylor, the creator and funder of an extraordinary new clock to be unveiled tomorrow by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. “Basically I view time as not on your side. He’ll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he’s salivating for the next. It’s not a bad thing to remind students of. I never felt like this until I woke up on my 70th birthday, and was stricken at the thought of how much I still wanted to do, and how little time remained.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately there are few decent pictures to be had of the device but the Telegraph<\/em><\/a> has an article which describes its “grasshopper escapement”, while the Guardian<\/em><\/a> goes one better with a video of the clock in action.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Longer video<\/a> at the university site with Dr Taylor explaining the clock in detail.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of Almacan<\/a>
\n\u2022 The sculpture of Christopher Conte<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Bowes Swan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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