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Bojan Keevill
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This may seem like a silly question, so I shall offer my apologies in advance.
I wish design an empirical experiment to show time.
I should be able to use a stopwatch to obtain a time value, say 1 s.
In order to show that the value which I have measured is not due to (my) bias, I must also devise a control.
Using my heart rate (about 60 pulses/min = about 1 pulse/s) could I show that the stopwatch has actually measured about 1 s of time? - or would I have used the stopwatch to measure the approximate rate of my heart? - or conversely, used my heart as a clock to approximately measure a 1 s count of the stopwatch?
Confusing!
Can anybody suggest an experimental method allowing for an objective and empirical measure of time?
I wish design an empirical experiment to show time.
I should be able to use a stopwatch to obtain a time value, say 1 s.
In order to show that the value which I have measured is not due to (my) bias, I must also devise a control.
Using my heart rate (about 60 pulses/min = about 1 pulse/s) could I show that the stopwatch has actually measured about 1 s of time? - or would I have used the stopwatch to measure the approximate rate of my heart? - or conversely, used my heart as a clock to approximately measure a 1 s count of the stopwatch?
Confusing!
Can anybody suggest an experimental method allowing for an objective and empirical measure of time?