Although Rocard's discoveries do not deal directly with cosmic clocks, they are relevant to our main concern.

They are the interpreters that translate into biological language the majestic directives sent to us through space by the cosmic clocks.

They found that there was a relationship between the animals' activity and the lunar day, but that each animal had its own way of following the cosmic clock.

Indeed, I was overcome by the feeling that time was running out for us, that a cosmic clock was rapidly ticking toward the stop point.

The Earth will explode when there is half an hour left on the cosmic clock.

"It's almost like a cosmic clock," he said.

But it would be a mistake to view this new aeon simply as another tick on a great cosmic clock.

It provided him with a "cosmic clock" in 1960 for fixing the age of the elements that made up the solar system.

Quite a long time later, by cosmic clock, she said, "Mike?

Later, the spring escapes the vultures and meets Greenie, who is then asked to put the spring back in the cosmic clock.