Mark Steinkamp, a marketing director for Daktronics, the company that designed the Staples Center timing system, said the clock doesn't recalibrate itself.
Ptacek and his colleagues foresee ways in which understanding the molecular action of PTCy could lead to new ways to control the food clock and regulate metabolism despite shifts in the timing and amount of calories ingested.
But the two coaches subsequently revealed that they had been informed by the fourth official that the clock had been stopped in error and that the referee would blow the final whistle earlier than the official timing indicated.