Graduate Exhibition

Our understanding and measurement of time is no longer determined by the movement of celestial bodies, but by the frequency of an atom’s vibration. The rotation of the earth is slowing down at an approximate rate of 1.4 - 1.7 milliseconds per century, proposing the idea that our time measurement system will eventually fall out of synchronisation with the rotations of the earth. Within two separate vessels, the audio of a ticking clock can be heard; the first tick repeats every second, and the second tick every 1.00000162 seconds – the length a second would be if re-calibrated to the slower rotations of the earth 10,000 years from now.