On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 5:51:44 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Because you can have bazillions of them and get a pretty accurate interval by counting up to say a million decay events. Brent > Who or what does the counting? Seems rather impractical. AG *Of course it's impractical, no engineer in his right mind would want to make a clock that way, but this is a thought experiment and in thought experiments you're only interested in if something is theoretically possible, its practicality is irrelevant. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* True, but I remain unclear how one could construct a clock in that situation, or allegedly in the simpler case of Cesium 133,. AG mnb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a11db020-5d5f-4442-ac68-6ab35d831f23n%40googlegroups.com.
