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  2. Time in physics - Wikipedia

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    is the time between two events as measured in the moving reference frame in which they occur at the same place (e.g. two ticks on a moving clock); it is called the proper time between the two events; t is the time between these same two events, but as measured in the stationary reference frame;

  3. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    Time: The interval between two events present on the worldline of a single clock is called proper time, an important invariant of special relativity. As the origin of the muon at A and the encounter with Earth at D is on the muon's worldline, only a clock comoving with the muon and thus resting in S′ can indicate the proper time T′ 0 =AD .

  4. Time dilation - Wikipedia

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    where Δt is the time interval between two co-local events (i.e. happening at the same place) for an observer in some inertial frame (e.g. ticks on their clock), known as the proper time, Δt′ is the time interval between those same events, as measured by another observer, inertially moving with velocity v with respect to the former observer ...

  5. Chronon - Wikipedia

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    For example, ordered pairs of events (A, B) and (B, C) could each be separated by slightly more than 1 Planck time: this would produce a measurement limit of 1 Planck time between A and B or B and C, but a limit of 3 Planck times between A and C. [citation needed] The chronon is a quantization of the evolution in a system along its world line.

  6. PDF - Wikipedia

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    The standard security provided by PDF consists of two different methods and two different passwords: a user password, which encrypts the file and prevents opening, and an owner password, which specifies operations that should be restricted even when the document is decrypted, which can include modifying, printing, or copying text and graphics ...

  7. Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    The distance is purely spatial, and is always positive. In spacetime, the separation between two events is measured by the invariant interval between the two events, which takes into account not only the spatial separation between the events, but also their separation in time. The interval, s 2, between two events is defined as:

  8. Median follow-up - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, median follow-up is the median time between a specified event and the time when data on outcomes are gathered. The concept is used in cancer survival analyses. [citation needed] Many cancer studies aim to assess the time between two events of interest, such as from treatment to remission, treatment to relapse, or diagnosis to death.

  9. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6] It was moved forward to 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds) in 2020, [ 7 ] 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) in 2023, [ 8 ] and 89 seconds (1 minute, 29 seconds) in 2025.