Even then it seems overkill. Nanoseconds will currently still be quite useful for the mentioned events and if my calculations are right, there will be 14310000 strontium clockticks in 1 nanosecond.
Kees. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: 30 April, 2015 13:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years -- The point of most such efforts is not to measure long intervals , even millenia, with great accuracy; it is to permit the short, very short, intervals of time between successive events within, say, a CP to be measured accurately. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > You would really hate to be more than a second late for being vapourized > by the sun when it goes "red giant". > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
