Re: Timekeeping (was: Selenites)

J.A. Mills wrote:

> like working with broken tools.  Start from scratch!  There was another post
> here about a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum being the standard for
> measuring a meter's length...perhaps if a new timekeeping system is truly to
> come into being, the whole system of measurements would have to be revamped.
> In other words, perhaps we could arbitrarily dispose of the arbitrary numbers.
>
> JAM
In a way we already have, the basic time unit of System Internationale
(sp?) which includes the metric system, is the second, last I heard,
defined in terms of the frequency of a particular atom.
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