Time
keeping has been important from at least the beginning of this world. Creation itself
occurred in the context of time. From the rotation of earth on its axis, to the
rhythm of sun, moon and stars, to the oscillations of a pendulum, to microwa
In 1633 Galileo was forbidden to teach and sentenced to house arrest. His crime was the promotion of the idea that the earth revolves around the sun and is not the center of our solar system. It took 300 years for the Catholic Church to finally