MEET WILL MATTHYSEN: CLOCKMAKING VIRTUOSO

#transitzone by Peter Clarke, Margo Kingston and Tim Dunlop

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We humans live within a triad of physical phenomena: SPACE, MOVEMENT and TIME. The three are intertwined in multiple ways and experiences. But TIME remains the most mysterious.

The revolution of our planet and its journey around the sun, with its seasonal shifts, are large scale indications and experiences of TIME.

From very early in human history, we invented ways of tracking and measuring the passing of TIME. Water clocks and sundials were part of that.

Organising TIME into units and then accurately depicting those units and the “time of day” came with clocks : mechanical tickers of time.

Today, we have achieved truly extravagant ways of measuring time down to the tiniest units.

And our lives are now fully tied to measuring ... 

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