http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(unit)
Max Robinson wrote:
A recent answer on Jeopardy involved an atom of time. The clue was "In
the 16th century this term described 1/374 of a minute. It wasn't
applied to matter for another 150 years." The correct response was "
What is an atom?" My research on Google for "atom of time" turned up
nothing relevant to this. Does anyone know what might have been the
origin of this number? My first guess was that it was based on gear
ratios for the escapement but at 6.2333... atoms per second it seems a
little fast for the clocks of that century.
Regards.
Max. K 4 O D S.
_______________________________________________
time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
and follow the instructions there.
