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The History of Clock Mechanism

Sourav Kumar Bhoumik

Abstract


Time is the temporal dimension of the world perceived by our human senses. The human experience of time is universal, thorough and immediate. Life, death, and time are related to each other in a complex manner, which is difficult to explain. Time is the principal of all forms of human knowledge and expression. Time has been defined in all great philosophies and religions. Time is connected with the functions of the mind. Time has been added as the fourth dimension of spacetime by Hermann Minkowski in 1908, which served the basis for Einstein’s special and general theory of relativity.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmd.v2i1.241

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