{"id":723,"date":"2005-08-11T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=723"},"modified":"2005-08-11T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T11:11:02","slug":"relative-timeliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Relative Timeliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford, at <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2005\/08\/10\/relative-timeliness\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a> discusses his hope \"to have science education and awareness so much the norm that everybody will casually - and without apology - sprinkle science facts, science reasoning and science humour into their everyday conversations just like they would sport, politics, or popular culture.\"<\/p>\n<p>Here's my observation:<\/p>\n<p>Time runs faster for the person who has to run to the store for a couple of six packs when the beer runs out (\"the store's like three minutes from here! it'll only take a sec'!\") than the people back at the party waiting for him to deliver said beer (\"how long has he been gone?\").<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure if this is because the people at the party are stationary, compared to the the person sent to get beer, or if there are non-relativistic explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford, at Cosmic Variance discusses his hope \"to have science education and awareness so much the norm that everybody will casually - and without apology - sprinkle science facts, science reasoning and science humour into their everyday conversations just like they would sport, politics, or popular culture.\" Here's my observation: Time runs faster for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}