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How is the shutter time of a camera actually verified? Why does the sound of a ticking clock change how a room feels? Why does a pendulum clock run slow in a hot summer and fast in a cold room? Millisecond pulsars keep time better than most man-made clocks Why do quartz watches lose a few seconds a month no matter how fresh the battery is? What makes an atomic clock wrong by only one second in a hundred million years? Why does a smart speaker show the wrong time after a power cut even though it syncs over wifi? What fails first in a clock that has run continuously for fifty years? Why do hourglasses survive in kitchens and board games when digital timers are cheaper? How do marathon timing chips actually record your finish? Why can a ship's clock not simply be a pendulum clock? How does a phone know the time when it has no signal at all? Why do some watch movements beat eight times a second instead of six? How do you measure a one-second interval with nothing but a piece of string and a weight? Why did ancient China and Europe build water clocks for very different purposes?

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