So in church on Sunday the pastor was talking about "time". He reckons that biblical times are accurate and that people actually lived longer during old-testament times and that our shorter lives nowadays are due in part to atmospheric changes that occurred during the great flood. I found this hypothosis very intriguing and have found myself thinking about it quite a bit in the past few days.
I have now formulated a hypothesis of my own: Time may or may not have changed, but people's reckoning of it certainly has. For example: How did one measure years 2,000 years ago? Most probably by the passing of seasons. Say that someone is very old: How many seasons have passed since they were born? Who knows? I know that for me personally time blurs when I think back twenty years. I remember only the hot spots. If I had grown up in a time where atomic clocks had yet to be invented, I think that my age as I report it might have varied from day to day. "Feeling old today..." or "Feel spry as a teen!"
Much of this line of path is, of course, provoked by my continued reading of Stephen King's "The Wolves of the Calla" in which King writes of time speeding up and slowing down in a literal sense.
I think our (meaning all peoples) lives' might have had greater quality before the invention of atomic clocks, when things were just a bit more relative and less precise.
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So a bit of good fortune: I have a computer, an AMD 64 bit processor with an ASUS K8D motherboard. Some months ago it had mysteriously ceased to function. It would start up, then spontaneously shut down after an indeterminate amount of time. My initial thought had been hard drive failure, so I replaced the hard drive but the problem continued.
I do recall that, at the time that I replaced the hard drive, the interior of the PC had been quite warm. All the fans were working, spinning, pushing air. The one on the processor, the one on the power supply, as well as the three in the case were all functioning properly, so I concluded that excessive heat could not be the cause of the problem.
I swapped out the video card but still the computer did not work. Perplexed, and needing a working computer, I purchased a new computer but convinced that there was still hope for the AMD, I did not discard it or sell it but instead put it aside.
Two weeks ago, I decided to try swapping out the power supply. This did not work, but in the process of replacing the power supply, I happened to brush against the processor heat sink and was surprised to feel how hot it was in spite of the fact that the fan on top of the heat sink was spinning speedily.
The ASUS K8D motherboard has a built in processor heat read-out. I should have checked it before but I did did now and found that the processor temperature was indicated at 74C. My mental light bulb flicked on instantly. I immediately pulled up ZipZoomFly and ordered this heat sink.
Two days ago I replaced the heat sink. When I looked at the old heat sink it was immediately obvious why the heat sink was not working, even though its fan still spun. The fins of the heat sink were, on the bottom, clogged with a thick layer of gray dust.
With the new processor heat sink installed, the PC started up and stayed up, with the ASUS motherboard processor temperature indicated as a constant 35C.
I have now formulated a hypothesis of my own: Time may or may not have changed, but people's reckoning of it certainly has. For example: How did one measure years 2,000 years ago? Most probably by the passing of seasons. Say that someone is very old: How many seasons have passed since they were born? Who knows? I know that for me personally time blurs when I think back twenty years. I remember only the hot spots. If I had grown up in a time where atomic clocks had yet to be invented, I think that my age as I report it might have varied from day to day. "Feeling old today..." or "Feel spry as a teen!"
Much of this line of path is, of course, provoked by my continued reading of Stephen King's "The Wolves of the Calla" in which King writes of time speeding up and slowing down in a literal sense.
I think our (meaning all peoples) lives' might have had greater quality before the invention of atomic clocks, when things were just a bit more relative and less precise.
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So a bit of good fortune: I have a computer, an AMD 64 bit processor with an ASUS K8D motherboard. Some months ago it had mysteriously ceased to function. It would start up, then spontaneously shut down after an indeterminate amount of time. My initial thought had been hard drive failure, so I replaced the hard drive but the problem continued.
I do recall that, at the time that I replaced the hard drive, the interior of the PC had been quite warm. All the fans were working, spinning, pushing air. The one on the processor, the one on the power supply, as well as the three in the case were all functioning properly, so I concluded that excessive heat could not be the cause of the problem.
I swapped out the video card but still the computer did not work. Perplexed, and needing a working computer, I purchased a new computer but convinced that there was still hope for the AMD, I did not discard it or sell it but instead put it aside.
Two weeks ago, I decided to try swapping out the power supply. This did not work, but in the process of replacing the power supply, I happened to brush against the processor heat sink and was surprised to feel how hot it was in spite of the fact that the fan on top of the heat sink was spinning speedily.
The ASUS K8D motherboard has a built in processor heat read-out. I should have checked it before but I did did now and found that the processor temperature was indicated at 74C. My mental light bulb flicked on instantly. I immediately pulled up ZipZoomFly and ordered this heat sink.
Two days ago I replaced the heat sink. When I looked at the old heat sink it was immediately obvious why the heat sink was not working, even though its fan still spun. The fins of the heat sink were, on the bottom, clogged with a thick layer of gray dust.
With the new processor heat sink installed, the PC started up and stayed up, with the ASUS motherboard processor temperature indicated as a constant 35C.
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