第八站：圣体钟 （the Corpus Clock）
圣体钟是由约翰泰勒（John Tylor）发明设计的。泰勒找到了一个距离剑桥大概六英里外的一个专门制造高精度工业仪器的制造商。在泰勒的监制下，两百多人耗费五年时间才制造完成。2008年9月19日，这座大钟由斯蒂芬·霍金揭幕。泰勒与霍金之间的连系是各自用不同的方式来诠释时间。霍金的著作《时间简史》最初发表于1988年，二十多年来其销量已经超过10万册，但由于太过艰涩难懂，它们大多都被束之高阁。然而，这座大钟却能够让你在短短的时间内感受到时间的仁慈和残酷。
图 28圣体钟 The Corpus Clock
首先，你看到圣体钟庞大的镀金表面，光洁犹如明镜。然后你会看到柔和的辐射波纹，仿佛一块石头投入到平静的池塘中央，一圈一圈飘荡开去。就像我们生命中流逝的时光，有谁会去刻意观察她的存在或者消失呢！我们再来看看这座大钟是如何解读时间的：请看那位于外环、中环和内环上的三个蓝色光点，外环上永不停息地沿着轨道奔跑的相当于秒针；中环上环顾左右的相当于分针；最中心稳坐泰山的相当于时针。实际上，那代表时间的蓝光是不转动的，转动的是背后那错综复杂的齿轮。朱自清在《匆匆》中写到，“太阳他有脚啊，轻轻悄悄地挪移了；我也茫茫然跟着旋转。”。太阳是自有永有的，不会因为你在晚上睡觉而消失。你看或不看，时间都在那里。你可以感受到设计师是如此竭力与我们分享他的时间哲学。
“你聪明的，告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？”朱自清在《匆匆》中发问。看看那个在大钟上方的怪物，也许你会找到一点点答案。它身穿黑衣，利舌赤红，阔嘴阴森,分分秒秒地舞动着它的金属翅膀，好像要与你决一死战。《启示录》的九章三节中记载，“有蝗虫从烟中出来”，泰勒由此得到启发，给这个怪物起名叫 “时间蝗虫”（Chronophage）。 这是一头吃时间的怪兽，专门吞噬我们的时间。 泰勒最崇拜的英国钟表匠 约翰·哈里森（John Harrison，1693-1776）设计了“时间蚱蜢”（grasshopper）。哈里森制作的钟即使在300年后的今天还能够正常运作，有一个就收藏在剑桥大学的科技史博物馆里。
图 29“时间蝗虫”Chronophage
图 30约翰·哈里森钟John Harrison’s Clock （In Wipple Museum）
泰勒在基督圣体学院学习工程学，于1959年毕业后加入他父亲的公司。他父亲也是个发明家，泰勒子承父业，你可以想象他有多少发明！圣体钟的故事始于它背后的建筑物。如果你抬头看，就可以见到雕刻在高墙上“伦敦银行1867年” 的字样，但是这里一直是基督圣体学院的财产。当租赁合同到期的时候，学院计划建一座新的图书馆，便向校友们募捐。泰勒赞助了一座图书馆。可是，后来又发现在两堵墙之间有一个缺口（就是以前的银行门口）。泰勒说，“不必担心，我来建一座大钟吧！” 。你知道这座钟的价值吗? 泰勒说，“这是礼物！”，当然，我们是不应该问礼物的价钱的。
泰勒是如何赚钱的？他发明了自动关闭电热水壶的温控器（这个芯片如大拇指指甲盖大小）。他已授权该设备200万余次。所以，每天，当你喝茶喝咖啡的时候，就相当于你给泰勒支付钱，也就是说你也间接赞助了这座大钟。
Eighth Station: Corpus Clock (the Corpus Clock)
Corpus Clock by John Taylor (John Tylor) invention design. Taylor found a a specialized manufacture of high precision industrial equipment manufacturer from Cambridge about six miles away. Under Taylor's producer, spent more than two hundred five years to complete fabrication. September 19, 2008, the great clock unveiled by Stephen Hawking. Hawking associated with Taylor and between their respective time to interpret in a different way. Hawking's book "Brief History of Time," originally published in 1988, twenty years has sold more than 100,000, but because of too difficult to understand, most of them have been shelved. However, the great clock of time but can make you feel the kindness and cruelty in a short period of time.
28 Corpus Clock The Corpus Clock
First, you see a huge Corpus Clock gilded surface, like a mirror finish. Then you will see a soft ripple of radiation, like a stone into the calm center of the pond, floating open to circle around. Like the passage of time in our lives, who would deliberately go to observe her presence or disappear too! We look at how the great clock of time is the interpretation: see points of light that are located in three blue outer ring, the inner ring and on, never stops running along the track corresponding to the second hand on the outer ring; Central Looking around on the equivalent of the minute hand; the center is equivalent to sit tight in Taishan hour. In fact, it represents the time of the Blu-ray is not rotating, that rotation is behind the intricate gears. Qing in "rush" wrote, "The sun has feet ah, lightly and furtively; I am also confused his revolution.". The sun is its own everlasting, because you will not sleep at night and disappear. You see or not see, the time is there. You can feel the designer is so trying to share his philosophy of time with us.
"You're smart, tell me, why should our days never to return?" Qing questions to the "rush" of. Look at that big clock above the monster, maybe you'll find a little bit of an answer. It is dressed in black, crimson tongues, wide mouth dark, and obviously dancing to its metal wings, and you seemed to fight to the death. "Revelation" in Section IX III records, "have come out of the smoke locusts," Taylor thereby be inspired to give this monster named "Time locusts" (Chronophage). This is a time-eating monster, devouring our special time. Taylor's most admired British clockmaker John Harrison (John Harrison, 1693-1776) designed the "Time grasshopper" (grasshopper). Harrison made the bell even today 300 years later, is also capable of normal operation, there is a collection of the museum on the history of science in the University of Cambridge.
29 "Time locusts" Chronophage
30 John Harrison Bell John Harrison's Clock (In the Wipple Museum, University of Cambridge)
Taylor studied engineering at Corpus Christi College, graduating in 1959 to join his father's company. His father was an inventor, Taylor inherited his father's footsteps, you can imagine how much he invention! Corpus Clock story began building behind it. If you look up, you can see the high walls carved the words "the London bank in 1867," but there has been a property of Corpus Christi College. When the lease expires, the college plans to build a new library, they would alumni donations. Taylor sponsored a library. However, later he found in a gap between two walls (that is, before the bank door). Taylor said, "Do not worry, I'll build a clock it!." You know the value of the clock it? Taylor said, "This is a gift!", Of course, we should not ask the price of the gift.
Taylor is how to make money? He invented the automatic shutdown of electric kettle thermostat (the chips such as the thumb size of a fingernail). He has authorized the device is more than 200 times. So, every day, when you drink tea drink coffee, the equivalent of the money you pay to Taylor, that you also indirectly sponsored the great clock.