Steve & Squirrel #51: Like Clockwork, Relatively Speaking

Author: somnambulist

Date: January 28, 2006

by somnambulist
1-28-06
*See "Steve & Squirrel #51" for an explanation of the challenge.
I saw your little comic* last night. I'm going to take you up on that bet!
Hmm... do I want my girlfriend to be mad at me now, or mad at me later?
11 minutes, 18 seconds later...
Eleven minutes, eighteen seconds. Damn, I'm good. Now pay up!
Well, technically, that was less than 15 minutes, and the bet was to do it in exactly 15 minutes. I never said "or less." But I'll let you give it another try. Double or nothing!
Approximately fifteen minutes later...
OK, my stopwatch shows 15:00.00.00. And I adjusted for being a stationary observer, so you can't weasel out of it this time!
Actually, the Planck time is the smallest meaningful unit on the quantum level, but it doesn't divide into fifteen minutes evenly, so your watch is off by a few picoseconds...