{"query": "The two clocks — quartz, cesium, and the second", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b10117556d41", "title": "The two clocks — quartz, cesium, and the second", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wrist clock and the world clock. Quartz beats 32,768 times a second; the SI second is\nDEFINED as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of cesium-133's hyperfine transition (since 1967) —\nsealed: the cesium c"}, {"id": "card_n_9d42516b140c", "title": "Quartz at 32,768 Hz — a power of two on the wrist", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every quartz watch cuts a tuning fork to hum at exactly 2^15 = 32,768 Hz, sealed, and\n32768 / 2^15 = 1: run the signal through fifteen binary flip-flops, each halving the frequency,\nand the last ticks"}, {"id": "card_c_65bfa1de23b4", "title": "The two clocks instantiate the quartz assay", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Quartz to cesium, the climb of precision."}, {"id": "card_n_d8471389950e", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading one history", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A people can be traced across DISTANCE and TIME by two records that survive in the body and\nin the mouth: the genome and the language. They are the same method — a molecular clock ticking,\na tree bran"}, {"id": "card_n_a84694b9ae04", "title": "Powers of two — the binary ladder", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The numbers a machine counts by, sealed: 2^10 = 1024 (the binary 'kilo'), 2^16 = 65,536\n(a 16-bit word's range), 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 (one GiB): https://narrowhighway.com/s/19df661045aef6fa486083cfbff"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_n_77c98f1d85ab", "title": "Easton: Haggai, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. Chapter first comprehends the first address (2-1"}, {"id": "card_n_f71dcef7634b", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §104: The other two also came to the foot of the hill; but when they saw that the hill was st...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The other two also came to the foot of the hill; but when they saw that the hill was steep and high, and that there were two other ways to go, and supposing also that these two ways might meet again, "}, {"id": "card_n_19b10fa2e595", "title": "Leviticus 16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD, and died;\n2. and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time"}, {"id": "card_n_63d52412a710", "title": "Easton: Decalogue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments; “the ten words,” as the original is more literally rendered (Ex. 20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone slabs (31:"}, {"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a"}, {"id": "card_n_5c1a1d7930e6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §115: Then she asked him whence he was, and whither he was going, and he told her.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then she asked him whence he was, and whither he was going, and he told her. She asked him also how he got into the way; and he told her. Then she asked him what he had seen and met with in the way; a"}, {"id": "card_n_ac7a1b4d5c0d", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third a"}, {"id": "card_n_274c76326c32", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §195: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. Well, I see that saying and doing are two things, and hereafter I shall better observe this distinction. CHR. They are two things, indeed, and are as diverse as are the soul and the body; for a"}, {"id": "card_n_2fa7e2abe99b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_020: These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, \"Do we love any thing but the beautiful? What then is the beautiful? and"}, {"id": "card_n_835d77020c67", "title": "Easton: Noah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s "}, {"id": "card_n_163f5cbbf02e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §400: Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate: and lo, as they entered, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate: and lo, as they entered, they were transfigured, and they had raiment put on that shone like gold. There was also that met them with harps"}, {"id": "card_n_26d8edb0a79b", "title": "Isaiah 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.\n2. Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he cove"}, {"id": "card_n_bbecbbc24fb6", "title": "The nucleus — the strongest glue and the slowest clocks", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Past gamma rays the spectrum ends and the nucleus itself begins. One chain,\neight steps, sealed — four of them IN-DOMAIN by the nuclear fleet: https://narrowhighway.com/s/8a5e89ab13bc499f39240c64360d9"}, {"id": "card_n_2aea9bb1c84c", "title": "Easton: Cock-crowing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In our Lord’s time the Jews had adopted the Greek and Roman division of the night into four watches, each consisting of three hours, the first beginning at six o’clock in the evening (Luke 12:38; Matt"}]}