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Abitrary

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Isn't is strange how you have to mow the lawn every six hours during the summer... then suddenly you just don't?

If you look at it scientically, the factors affecting its growth i.e. sunlight, warmth and moisture shouldn't slow it down that much in winter when:

-we've still got lots of rain
-we've now got global warming
-surely it should grow pro-rata during the sunny spells.

I conclude therefore that putting the clocks forward at the end of British Summertime affects the grasseses' biorhythmic clock.
 
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Arch

Married to Night Train
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Abitrary said:
I conclude therefore that putting the clocks forward at the end of British Summertime affects the grasseses' biorhythmic clock.

Er yes. Lots of nature is affected by day length, rather than actual weather. Which is why sometimes Ptarmigan and Hares and Stoats end up with white coats on snowless hillsides... So BST has nothing to do with it, being a human construct, but changing day length does...
 
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Abitrary

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Arch said:
Er yes. Lots of nature is affected by day length, rather than actual weather. Which is why sometimes Ptarmigan and Hares and Stoats end up with white coats on snowless hillsides... So BST has nothing to do with it, being a human construct, but changing day length does...

What about the time people spend watching it grow though? BST will affect that, and it's been proved in quantum mechanics that intervention through watching can affect stuff at a molecular level.
 

graham56

Guru
Arch said:
Er yes. Lots of nature is affected by day length, rather than actual weather. Which is why sometimes Ptarmigan and Hares and Stoats end up with white coats on snowless hillsides... So BST has nothing to do with it, being a human construct, but changing day length does...

White is soooo passe this year Arch. :evil:
 

Pete

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Abitrary said:
What about the time people spend watching it grow though? BST will affect that, and it's been proved in quantum mechanics that intervention through watching can affect stuff at a molecular level.
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rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
My grass has grown enough to need a cut but it's not going to get one yet. I think it's grown more than in previous winters.
 

domtyler

Über Member
You can do lots of little creatures a big favour by leaving your grass long over the winter period. You will be rewarded come spring with a much better population of insects that feed on nasties like midges and greenfly.
 
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Abitrary

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domtyler said:
You can do lots of little creatures a big favour by leaving your grass long over the winter period. You will be rewarded come spring with a much better population of insects that feed on nasties like midges and greenfly.

It becomes a bloodbath in the spring with all the frogs in there though when you get the hover out
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
Abitrary said:
Isn't is strange how you have to mow the lawn every six hours during the summer... then suddenly you just don't?

If you look at it scientically, the factors affecting its growth i.e. sunlight, warmth and moisture shouldn't slow it down that much in winter when:

-we've still got lots of rain
-we've now got global warming
-surely it should grow pro-rata during the sunny spells.

I conclude therefore that putting the clocks forward at the end of British Summertime affects the grasseses' biorhythmic clock.

Actually to be fair to your post on BST, I've had cats who used to turn up to eat at more or less the same time everyday and when the clocks change they are an hour out but then seem to get used to it quickly after a few days.

BST is just a transformation ultimately though, doesn't mean much.
 
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Abitrary

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marinyork said:
Actually to be fair to your post on BST, I've had cats who used to turn up to eat at more or less the same time everyday and when the clocks change they are an hour out but then seem to get used to it quickly after a few days.

BST is just a transformation ultimately though, doesn't mean much.

But like I was saying, the 'observer effect' must affect it a bit.

If it can affect other stuff, why not grass?
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
Well if you're interested in coordinate changes and transformations perhaps you should take up vector calculus as a hobby :wacko:.

Perhaps grass mysteriously changes flavours. Perhaps grass is diffracted in a double slit phenomenon as it goes through a lawnmower. Perhaps it is renormalized when it gets composted.

Joking aside, as we've said elsewhere quantum mechanical effects are observed but like with the pendulum it's a mindbogglingly small affect. Bits of grass have dimensions in mm, the scales we're talking about where quantum mechanical effects are obvious are about a million times (very crudely) smaller.
 
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