In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html
>>The second is now defined not as the a fraction of a day, and >>therefore an even smaller fraction of a year. It is 9,192,631,770 >>periods of radiation from a caesium atom in its ground state. Looks like this reporter's idea of the current definition of the second is a few years old too... Warner