On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:13:23 PM UTC, palsing wrote:
Gerald, must you hijack virtually every thread with your insane drivel? Your time would be much better spent reading an astronomy textbook to finally learn about what you *think* you already know, but don't.

If you have nothing to contribute concerning the life of Dr. Hawking in this thread, don't say a darn thing...

Maybe you can write a book entitled ' A brief history of timekeeping' which is the background to all empirical notions since Newton.