Time and its passage, or passing, in all its aspects.

The world's largest sundial - Sundial Bridge, Redding, California

Welcome to the timeCrazy web site, devoted to musings of one sort or another on the subject of time, a blend of the serious and the trivial, the sublime and the ridiculous.

Amongst the many musings (time art, time jokes, time quotations etc.) are two particularly important pages, timeStory and timeStoryUpdate.

The timeStory page includes the script of ‘The New Genesis’, a short story of the very long time since time itself began, of the history of time in the sense of the evolution of the universe, our place in it, and our prospects.

And it is a story you can keep up to date on (see the timeStoryUpdate page) as scientific thinking on the evolution of the universe, and life in it, develops. But enjoy, too, the links to other sites, perhaps to buy some of the great, and fun, material out there about time (art, books, films, music, clock screensavers etc.)

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timeArt

'Soft watch at the moment of first explosion', by Salvador Dali, 1954. Dali representing the end of time as we knew it – Einstein etc.

timeBooks

'About Time – Einstein's Unfinished Revolution', by Paul Davies. Paul Davies confronts the tough questions about time in this brilliant book on the subject.

timeCartoons

When Rupert arrives home with his Father's watch, Mr Bear smiles with surprise. "Goodness" he says. "That was quick. You hardly took any time at all!"

timeChimes

The Westminster Chimes are the same notes first used on the clock in the University Church tower of St. Mary's Cambridge, England.

timeClocks

The Shepherd Gate clock at Greenwich was installed in 1852 and was the first to provide Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to the public. It is a 24 hour clock with noon at the bottom.

timeCrazyClocks

The Cuckoo Clock looks as if four original wooden clocks grow out of a huge old tree. Four amazing cuckoo birds peek out at each whole and half hour and sing their song.

timeFilms

While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities.

timeGames

The computer game series The Journeyman Project places the player in the shoes of Gage Blackwood, Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency (TSA), a secret organization charged with guarding the timestream.

timeJokes

Why does a boxing match never quite run to time? Because each round begins seconds out.

timeMeasurement

The precision of timekeeping is progressing rapidly. Currently accurate to around 10-16 of a second, clocks are expected to soon reach 10 –18 of a second accuracy.

timeMusic

Considered by some to be the last truly great album from ELO, 'Time' is set at the end of the 21st Century. A futuristic concept album ahead of its time?

timeNews

Time has been a key issue in the development of the great rival to string theory, loop quantum gravity. The braiding of bits of space-time can be seen to form particles with the longevity they clearly have.

timePhilosophy

What is time? Could there be creatures outside of time? Does time flow – and, if so, how quickly? Does it exist at all?

timePoems

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.

timeQuotations

I wasted time and now time doth waste me.

timeSites

Time in time zones around the world is set relative to Greenwich Mean Time – time at the Greenwich Meridian.

timeSport

The fastest 100m time is 9.69 seconds, set by Usain Bolt of Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. His average speed was 23.1 mph (37.2 kph) and he probably reached 30 mph (48 kph) in mid-run.

timeStory

The awe inspiring nature of our genesis (and prospects) should remind us constantly of how insignificant we are in the universal scale of things.

timeStoryUpdates

The cyclic universe model assumed the reset of matter and radiation at each big crunch/bang. But, now, quantum fluctuations are considered to survive, giving rise to the new set of galaxies and stars.

timeSundials

The famous dial in Queens' College, Cambridge, is said by some to have been designed by Sir Isaac Newton but, although it is associated with him, it could not have been designed by him.

timeTelevision

Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 pm (GMT) on November 23, 1963. BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, was mainly responsible for developing it.

timeTravel

An interesting and fun overview of issues around time travel can be found on author John Gribbin's web site.

timeWatches

The 'Grande Complication' by Swiss watch maker IWC is one of the most expensive chronographs in the world and is reputed to be the ultimate in mechanical horology.

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