A new year, and a clock moving too fast for us. Abe Villarreal. ... The days become shorter, the clock moves faster. Time don't wait on no one. Your goals, save them for the new year.

The clock at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally runs three minutes fast and is set back to match Greenwich Mean Time only on Dec. 31. This year, it will keep running fast.

Like a metronome that sets the tempo for a musician, a fundamental cosmic clock may be keeping time throughout the universe. But if such a clock exists, it ticks extremely fast. In physics, time ...