On 31 October 2016 at 09:04, Giliad Wilf <000000d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Atomic clock ticks at an absolutely constant rate of some 9192631770 > oscillations > per second (Cesium-133 atom oscillating between two energy ground levels), > while Earth sidereal day gets slower(*) by 1.4 milliseconds a day per century. > This lagging behind accumulates over time and mounts to almost a complete > second over approx. 500 days.
I'm a little confused about what kind of units "1.4 milliseconds a day per century" would be in. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
