Re: Timekeeping (was: Selenites)

Hawksinger wrote:
> 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.
No, it's now defined as the distance light travels in 1/299792458 of a
second.  It used to be defined in terms of the wavelength of the
radiation emited by a particular isotope of Cesium (?), but it was
changed to the fraction of a second (thus defining the speed of light as
299,792,458 m/s).

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