Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course, Tom showed years ago having a different base frequency than > 9,192,631,770Hz would have fit the wobble of the earth better, but that was > settled in the late 50s / early 60s so we'd have to go farther back in time > to 'fix' that.
Further than that :-) The atomic second was matched to the ephemeris second, which was based on Newcomb's Tables of the Sun. It isn't obvious to me that there's any link in this chain of continuity where things went wrong, until the introduction of leap seconds solved the problem the wrong way :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ contribute to the process of peace and disarmament, the elimination of world poverty, and the collective safeguarding of democracy _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
