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Demetrios N. Matsakis
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Director of the Time Services Department, U.S. Naval Observatory.

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Dynamical time, specialized timescale used to describe the motion of objects in space. As a practical matter, time can be defined as that coordinate which can most simply be related to the evolution of closed systems. Proper time is the time measured by a clock in a reference system in which it is…
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