Clock Chronicles

        Clock is simply an instrument for measuring time. Although time is somewhat endless, we humans have figured out a way to trap it inside a box, sometimes circular ones. Time began with the birth of the universe. Time was there even before the first interactions among amino acids. But humans devised an instrument in order to keep a track of time some only 5000 years ago. Examples include the Stonehenge, Sundials, water-clocks, sand hourglasses etc. Some people believe the Stonehenge was built by the aliens. Though it is a matter of wonder, why aliens, being already a race far advanced than us, would stack up a bunch of 50 ton rocks for reasons still unknown. However, the mechanical clocks that we use today were designed in the 17^th century, possibly by Galileo Galilei. In those days pendulum was used to run a clock. Today we have clocks that exist simply as a liquid-crystal display. Clocks have actually put the ever-flowing time into a cage. And the cage is designed with numbers from 1 to 12. But time is not limited among these numbers. Even if all the clocks in the world stop ticking, time will still keep flowing. There is a phrase that goes like this “until the end of time”. That is to say, maybe time will be over someday, even if there would be no clock to announce it.