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Any process that takes a certain amount of time can be used to measure the passage of time, such as water dripping from a pail with a hole in it, a candle, your heart (although that is not too reliable because it varies, but it is believed that the frequency of a heartbeat is the reason behind the length of a second), or an hourglass. A favorite of generations of clock makers is the pendulum, because no matter how high you start it swinging from, the swing always takes the same amount of time as long as the pendulum's length remains constant. You can slow down the pendulum by making it longer or speed it up by making it shorter.

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