Why Are We So Obsessed With Measuring Time?
b"Now, while we may not be aware of it, each and every one of us is a slave to an unseen and unknowable master. It rules the sun and the earth, roving the cosmos with indifference - presiding over the birth and death of stars and galaxies and every living thing.It is Time. And, consequently, we have a long-standing obsession with measuring it. But just how far back does that obsession go?\\nChad Orzel, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and author of \\u2018A Brief History of Timekeeping \\u2013 The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks\\u2019 joined Jonathan to discuss.\\nListen and subscribe to\\xa0Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea\\xa0on\\xa0Apple Podcasts\\xa0and\\xa0Spotify.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\nDownload, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nYou can also listen to Newstalk live on\\xa0newstalk.com\\xa0or on Alexa, by\\xa0adding the Newstalk skill\\xa0and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'."