fundamental

The race4time project is being developed for schools and involves forming master clocks for experiments and competitions within schools. The concept of time and space is fundamental to human understanding, so its important that time and clocks are seen as physical working models, if you like physical prompts for society to trip over and wonder.

The best way of showing this is with a pendulum clock. This is a fundamental prompt, which when seen for the first time evokes thought. Why does it move the way it does? The Race4Time brings concepts of time, space, how we fit in the grand scheme of things and relates to community and the environment.

From the next generations perspective, it offers exciting challenges and thought provoking ideas which will address future challenges.

This is one of the most advanced areas and fundamental to onamission, the concept of time. We have now the largest international electric accurate/ precision electric clock group. We have developed information systems to allow people to make this past technology come alive. We have the Quest bloggs and the www.got2own.co.uk service, to allow people to exchange items so projects become a reality.

We hold a huge collection of accurate and precise time recorders and have an international project that aims at making sure the pendulum is always in the public eye. The pendulum is a physical prompt that leads to the study of engineering and science, an understanding of the planet and the solar system, down to the very vibrations of atoms. We think time is important and yours is to us, we welcome you to get involved and onamission.

The only other area, that is as important, is the concept of modeling. This can be a physical model, mathematical one, or simulation on a computer. Its fundamental to science and engineering and the testing of knowledge. We all build them up in are heads, this is why we are able to improve are actions, from simply getting better at playing darts to complex engineering projects, without a model, an understanding, design becomes a random process of chance and luck. From the research we undertook the average age of model engineering groups is around 75 years old. If we don’t do something soon , where will we be in 10 years?