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- From: positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas)
- Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 02:06:35 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
- >According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- >(formerly NBS):
- >
- > The second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of
- >the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
- >hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133.
- >
-
- You sure about this? I'm almost certain that a second is defined as the
- amount of time it takes light to travel 299,xxx,xxx meters in a vacuum.
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