{"id":777107,"date":"2024-02-13T04:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777107"},"modified":"2024-02-13T04:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T09:54:53","slug":"this-century-is-special-astronomer-royal-martin-rees-on-the-vast-span-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777107","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This century is special&#8217;: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the vast span of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">DAVID LEVENSON\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>IN OUR everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain it or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we risk doing time.<\/p>\n<p>But it is, of course, something we can measure. Indeed, clocks have, over the centuries, been the high-tech artefacts of their era \u2013 the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison\u2019s chronometer, all the way up to the incredible precision of atomic clocks.<\/p>\n<p>Before there was a reliable calendar of\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134724-900-this-century-is-special-martin-rees-on-the-vast-span-of-time\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist. DAVID LEVENSON\/Getty Images IN OUR everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain it or lose it. We&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}