No, leap seconds have to do with the gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation, and nothing to do with Cesium.
73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David McGaw Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:29 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ?? It is my understanding that they actually got it a bit wrong, which is why we seem to have a lot of leap seconds. David On 5/8/12 9:19 PM, paul swed wrote: > Thanks downloaded the paper. I assume the hyper fine transition happened to > be the one nearest that frequency? You can tune to either side of the peak > and get a lock on the next transition. > Regards > Paul. > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:14 PM, David C. Partridge< > [email protected]> wrote: > >> It's unlikely you'll ever see a negative leap second - the earth's >> rotation is slowing down, not speeding up. >> >> Dave >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Jerry Mulchin >> Sent: 09 May 2012 01:56 >> To: [email protected]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ?? >> >>> It is interesting that the leap seconds correction is always a positive >> number. >> >> Jerry >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
