On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Neville Michie <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you use n pulsars of different frequencies where n is a large number, then > individual pulsars > could do dramatic things and the rest would still define your time. > Include their spin down rate, velocity and position and I think that you > could define a time scale that would enable elapsed time to be deduced > from any arbitrary zero from the phases of all the pulsars. > It is a little like a random version of the method they use for distance > measurement with lasers where they modulate the beam with > IKHz, 10KHz, 100KHz, 1MHz, 10MHz etc and by observing the > phase of each they work out the time delay of flight. > cheers, Neville Michie > > Or how GPS works _______________________________________________ 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.
