Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2015-04-30, at 14:57, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On 2015-04-30, at 14:37, Ed Gould wrote: >> >> I am thinking that the URL is "broken" by the listserv. >> >> Ed >> > I suspect otherwise. After carefully repairing and testing your URL, > I'm submitting it again via OS X 10.6.8 Mail.app. I'll s

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2015-04-30, at 14:37, Ed Gould wrote: > > I am thinking that the URL is "broken" by the listserv. > > Ed > I suspect otherwise. After carefully repairing and testing your URL, I'm submitting it again via OS X 10.6.8 Mail.app. I'll see what happens. http://www.sciencedaily.com/release

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Ed Gould
Paul: I am thinking that the URL is "broken" by the listserv. Ed On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:55:24 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Schmeelk, Gregory P.
2015 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years -- On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:52:09 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:31:09 +, Vernooij, CP wrote: > >>They can claim anyth

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:55:24 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? >utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: >+sciencedaily/strange_science+(Strange+&+Offbeat+News+--+ScienceDaily) > >(watch the wrap) > Ed, you should use a better

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:52:09 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:31:09 +, Vernooij, CP wrote: > >>They can claim anything, who is gonna check this and where >>can I complain after 15b years if my clock appears to be not >>that accurate then? > >Why shouldn't it be that accurat

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:31:09 +, Vernooij, CP wrote: > > >They can claim anything, who is gonna check this and where > >can I complain after 15b years if my clock appears to be not > >that a

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:31:09 +, Vernooij, CP wrote: >They can claim anything, who is gonna check this and where >can I complain after 15b years if my clock appears to be not >that accurate then? Why shouldn't it be that accurate? After all, a second is currently defined in terms of atomic

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
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Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Schmeelk, Gregory P.
il 30, 2015 1:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: +sciencedaily/strange_sci

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily/strange_science+(Strange+&+Offbeat+News+--+ScienceDaily) > ​And I can just imagine it: The first one is set b

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: 30 April, 2015 13:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 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

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread John Gilmore
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 wrote: > You would

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu wi

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-29 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
, 2015 8:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years -- Ed Gould wrote: >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? >utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: >+sciencedail

Re: O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-29 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ed Gould wrote: >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? >utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: >+sciencedaily/strange_science+(Strange+&+Offbeat+News+--+ScienceDaily) Thanks for this just in time OT post, but my dear Watson, is it really that accurate?

O/T Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years --

2015-04-29 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421132031.htm? utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: +sciencedaily/strange_science+(Strange+&+Offbeat+News+--+ScienceDaily) (watch the wrap) -- For IBM-MAIN