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my watch is getting slower
#22291619 - 09/26/15 02:11 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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ok so i wear a digital watch, i've had it for a very long time.
this may have been happening for a long time but its just recently that ive noticed this .
so i have a secondary clock that is aligned with the correct time and beeps every hour.
my watch also beeps every hour.
but over the past few weeks its been getting slower. like my watch is losing time, i started realizing this when it would beep 6 seconds after the corrected time one. and every day it slows another half second. it's currently 14 seconds behind all the other clocks.
how is this possible? like if the battery was dying, wouldn't it just suddenly stop at some point, and not literally go slower? could the quartz be fucked?
am i actually moving slower in time than the rest of the universe , because the watch is on me? i rarely take it off.
halp me sciency people!
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Re: my watch is getting slower [Re: Salomon]
#22291645 - 09/26/15 02:22 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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If the battery was dying, this is likely what would be happening, it won't necessarily suddenly switch off, it's happened to watches of mine in the past. Switch the battery up and see if you're in sync with the universe again.
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its the world moving on dude.
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Into The Woods said: If the battery was dying, this is likely what would be happening,
iawtc
change the battery
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Re: my watch is getting slower [Re: Salomon] 1
#22293650 - 09/26/15 01:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Salomon said: so i have a secondary clock that is aligned with the correct time and beeps every hour.
my watch also beeps every hour.
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am i actually moving slower in time than the rest of the universe , because the watch is on me? i rarely take it off.
Your secondary clock, I'm guessing, is stationary?
Your watch is not.
Objects that move faster, cause Time to tick slower. This is a known theory that goes back to Albert Einstein.
You're a walking physics experiment and you didn't even know it.
OR...
A quarts crystal vibrates at a certain frequency when electricity is passed through it. Change the electricity, and I believe you change the frequency of the crystal resonance (lower the voltage, lower the frequency, slower the clock?).
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batteries are for chumps, i'm working entropy up in dis bitch
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Arctic W. Fox said: A quarts crystal vibrates at a certain frequency when electricity is passed through it. Change the electricity, and I believe you change the frequency of the crystal resonance (lower the voltage, lower the frequency, slower the clock?).
It's an oscillating crystal; it has a resonant frequency that is a property of the material, itself. If it weren't a digital watch I'd say it probably just can't move the gears all the time but in a digital watch, idk o.o
Maybe it's low enough to be affecting the circutry? As in skipping TTL pulses or something.
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Quote:
Arctic W. Fox said:
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Salomon said: so i have a secondary clock that is aligned with the correct time and beeps every hour.
my watch also beeps every hour.
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am i actually moving slower in time than the rest of the universe , because the watch is on me? i rarely take it off.
Your secondary clock, I'm guessing, is stationary?
Your watch is not.
Objects that move faster, cause Time to tick slower. This is a known theory that goes back to Albert Einstein.
You're a walking physics experiment and you didn't even know it.
OR...
A quarts crystal vibrates at a certain frequency when electricity is passed through it. Change the electricity, and I believe you change the frequency of the crystal resonance (lower the voltage, lower the frequency, slower the clock?).
For a simple wrist watch to have suddenly changed 14 seconds over the past few weeks, I'd wonder how fast he'd have to have been moving.
What on Earth have you been up to, sal?
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Into The Woods said: For a simple wrist watch to have suddenly changed 14 seconds over the past few weeks, I'd wonder how fast he'd have to have been moving.
What on Earth have you been up to, sal? 
hahaha,
well, let's see. if we solve for 2:
dialation factor = 1 / √( 1 - c²/v² ) = 2
2 * √( 1 - c²/v² ) = 1
c²/v² = .75 : c = 3 x 10^8 m/s
6.75×10¹⁶ = v²
v ~ 259,807,621 m/s, or .866 times the speed of light, for 7 seconds
but wait, there's a problem!
he has to get back somehow
seeing he has travelled roughly 1,818,653,347 meters he better go somewhat fast
if he goes at the same speed in a reverse direction his watch would be off by 0 seconds
maybe if he goes slowly...
let's say he can wait a whole 100 seconds :v
then for 14 seconds, you would need a factor of x : 100x = 14 : x = .14 = 1 / √( 1 - c²/v² )
solving for v,
.14 x √( 1 - c²/v² ) = 1 => c²/v² = |- 50.020408163| => |−1.799265606×10¹⁵| = v²
v = 42417751 m/s, or ~ .14c
but!!! with a factor of .14 and 100 seconds in reverse
you would GAIN 14 seconds still >.<
since we can't go 1,818,653,347m and make it back before everyone we know is dead
let's say we travel the circumference of the Earth fast enough in a circle
oh wait, damn. vectors
we can only do half of it or we would be going in a circle, in an away direction and back
40,075.16km / 2 = 20037.58km = 20037580m (keeping units the same)
D = 1 / √( 1 - c²/v² ) ... hmm
we could substitute meters/seconds for v but that doesn't really help, we need v
we can't choose an arbitrary t since that would solve for v, we'd have distrance / time
we also can't choose an arbitrary dialation factor either, since we know we'd need 14s
scale that and you would still have t, so solving for v would still cancel out
in conclusion, i think it is impossible :v
it makes sense actually, since it is really an invariant
which is why we just get the time BACK if we loose it >.<
for example, substituting for D,
D x t = 14
14/t = 1 / √( 1 - c²/(14/t)² ) : t/14 = √( 1 - c²/(14/t)² ) : 14 x √|- (t²+196)/196| = ct
14/c x √ (t²+196)/196 = t : t²+196 = (196*t)²/.000000047²
... yeah 
edit: fixed really f'ing stupid mistake, what the hell was i thinking
Edited by micro (09/28/15 02:44 AM)
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Re: my watch is getting slower [Re: micro]
#22298630 - 09/27/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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yoiu can't prove i'm not the flash
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Re: my watch is getting slower [Re: Salomon]
#22299477 - 09/27/15 04:46 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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the flash itself?
or the light that came from it?
the former, well... no i can't but the latter would be easy. you would not be here anymore
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