Not all clocks appear like a pocket watch
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Any random sequence of occasions, such because the lapping of ocean waves on the shore, can develop into a clock – and physicists have now devised a mathematical process for making such an odd timepiece and for measuring its precision.
“How will you flip something right into a clock? We determined to sort out that drawback by excited about processes that, in a approach, look the least like clocks,” says Mark Mitchison at Trinity School Dublin in Eire.
A wristwatch can be utilized to maintain time as a result of its ticks are each common…
