Simulating the Corpus Clock: A Hybrid Dynamical Systems Model of Taylor’s Chronophage
The Corpus Clock sits at the corner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Unveiled in 2008 by Stephen Hawking, it was designed by inventor John C. Taylor as a meditation on time’s relentless consumption of life. A giant golden insectoid sculpture — the Chronophage (from the Greek chronos, time, and ephagon, I ate) — crouches atop the clock face, its jaw mechanically… Read More: Simulating the Corpus Clock: A Hybrid Dynamical Systems Model of… »