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SIR JOHN CARROLL1 has recently discussed the possibility of recovering an absolute scale of time from the observation of nuclear decay processes. The essence of the following remarks is that the owner of a non-linear clock can rectify it if he is allowed to observe the motion of a Brownian particle (in the sense of Norbert Wiener).
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KENDALL, D. Stochastic Rectification of Non-linear Clocks. Nature 184, 1476 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841476a0
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