now the science bit
When you move your eyes to look at something, your brain stops seeing whilst your eyes are actually flicking to what you are going to look at (you can see this yourself if you flick your eyes from far left to far right and back again, look really carefully and you'll see nothing for a split second). This leaves the brain with a gap and so it backfills the timeline with what you're now looking at. If that happens when you look at the second hand on a watch or clock, you think you've been looking at a stationary second hand between ticks longer than you actually have.

This doesn't happen with sweep second hands
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:37, 1 reply)

apparently
we're all half a second behind. A bit like DAB radio.


www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a743900378&fulltext=713240928
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:43, closed)

and Sky
which technically means you're not watching tv as it is being broadcast and is therefore a defence for not having a TV Licence.

Also, if you haven't already done so, read this book. It is fabulous:

www.amazon.co.uk/Phantoms-Brain-Human-Nature-Architecture/dp/1857028953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278284234&sr=8-1
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:54, closed)

Orderd!
He did the best Reith lectures I've heard.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 5 Jul 2010, 7:28, closed)