Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist.
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IN OUR on a regular basis lives, time is a treasured commodity. We can acquire it or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we danger doing time.
But it is, of course, one thing we will measure. Indeed, clocks have, over the centuries, been the high-tech artefacts of their period – the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison’s chronometer, all the means as much as the unbelievable precision of atomic clocks.
Before there was a dependable calendar of…