The Times writes of the Corsum Clock, set to be unveiled in Britain today:
“The hour approaches. The beast’s jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction. ‘It is terrifying, it is meant to be,’ said John Taylor, the creator and funder of an extraordinary new clock to be unveiled…by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. ‘Basically I view time as not on your side. He’ll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he’s salivating for the next. It’s not a bad thing to remind students of. I never felt like this until I woke up on my 70th birthday, and was stricken at the thought of how much I still wanted to do, and how little time remained.'”
Watch Taylor explain the clock, AFTER THE JUMP…
