Ashley Yakeley scripsit:
> Rubber seconds are appropriate because we have rubber days. People
> who need absolute time have their own timescale based on some
> absolute unit (the SI "second"), but to everyone else, the second is
> a fraction of the day.
Well, okay. Does the rubberiness go down all the way? Is a civil
nanosecond one-billionth of a civil second, then? If so, how do we
build clocks that measure these intervals?
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Received on Mon Jan 01 2007 - 22:48:38 PST