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The Metronome Clock

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co-author: Alexis Clancy

The conventional Object-Oriented instance is instantiated only from micro-measurable tick-tock time.

This is the standard time that is implemented in the time and math libraries of existing Object-Oriented programming languages like C++ and Java.

The time methods library of Java is implemented on top of the microprocessor clock of the digital/binary computer.

The quantum computer will slowly come into existence after an expansion in our consciousness of what we perceive to be time.

The conventional Metronome clock can only instantiate an inanimate mechanism.

A standard time library will be written.

We need to implement a Metronome time library in a manner similar to the Mercury Project.

Mercury is a new logic/functional programming language with advanced static analysis and error detection features.

In Mercury, the time library functions are implemented on top of the Java time library.

In order to get the Superfast clock to work, we will slow down the Metronome clock by a factor of 22 or 23.

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