• Universal Time: They are committed to a precise time. They're de facto Newtonian.
  • Times Services of the US Naval Observatory
  • What is it? NASA's response.
  • An Official US Time: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Royal Society: Sir Isaac Newton's group still carries on some of his old traditions.
  • Sir Isaac's absolute space and absolute time (Stanford University Encyclopedia)
  • A classical history of time from St. Andrews and their excellent references
• Now consider today's musings:
  • A Brief History of Time: Prof. Dr. Stephen Hawking, Cambridge University
  • INVENTING TIME AND SPACE , John H. Lienhard, University of Houston
  • A Rolling Stones sense of time
  • The television series, Nova, wrestlings
    They dare to walk out on the edge and ask about time travel.
  • From days (1973-1980) at Boston University colloquiums on the foundations of physics:
    • Paul Davies has a way with words.
    • Adolf Grünabum's volume, Philosophical Prolems of Space and Time, is a most comprehensive look at the problem of time.
    • Not too many books remain of my early library. Hans Reichenbach, The philosophy of space and time, the book of an old professor and friend, Milic Capek's The Concepts of Space and Time, and J.T. Fraser's The Voices of Time have all come down off the shelf. Most recently Lisa Randall's Warped Passages joined this small group.
    • In discussions with John Conway, Princeton, and others about the interiority of space and time, it seems that our most substantial drawback is our general lack of knowledge and insight about the structure of interior space. What is perfectly enclosed within an octahedron? It is a question that our kindergarten children should be able to answer as quickly as 2+2 and most people simply do not know or care.
      
      We see, observe and measure things that are exterior to us. We use microscopes (1595), electron microscopes (1938) and now scanning tunneling microscope (1981) to see things interior, . There are 74 particle accelerators around the world to look at the deep structure of an atom. Then the quantum dilemma intersects. Many of these scientists believe there is a grand unifying theory that ultimately may help to define a more fundamental frame of reference. Stephen Hawking provides some insights here.

If space-and-time are not fundamental frames of reference -- if they are derivative -- then what are the fundamentals? Any alternative to Sir Isaac Newton's absolute mathematical time has always been rather counter-intuitive, but now, with well over 100 years of discussions, we have not rendered anything to replace that commonsense notion of time.

To understand Einstein, even a little, will require our own metaphors and analogies that take us inside not just Einstein's mind, but our own mind as well.

It seems – possibly a bit of a stretch for most – that our web technologies can actually give us an experience that brings us beyond Newton and toward Einstein. Collaboration is something like being a member of an orchestra, all playing from the same orchestral arrangement, the notes blending magically, exquisitely transcending the moment within deep harmonies. Here it is not Einstein's light that seems to be fundamental; it is the relation. Just as if you are a participant-obsever of a masterful concert, in these web-based experiences, every thing appears to be derived from the relation, including all space and all time.

We're just opening this discussion about collaboration software and the technologies of attentuation that create heighten awareness and bring people into some kind of "hypertime" and "hyperspace."

Indeed, time and space (recap) are so fundamental most of us take both for granted. We believe we are at the beginning of a very significant revolution when we are at long last breaking free of long-held beliefs about what is possible within a given space and time.