42 On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [email protected] said: > > Earth is a very noisy, wandering, drifting, > incredibly-expensive-to-measure, > > low-precision (though high-Q) clock. > > What is the Q of the Earth? It might be on one of your web pages, but I > don't remember seeing it. Google found a few mentions, but I didn't find a > number. > > I did find an interesting list of damping mechanisms in a geology book. > Geology-nuts are as nutty as time-nuts. Many were discussing damping of > seismic waves rather than rotation. > > I've seen mention that the rotation rate of the Earth changed by a few > microseconds per day as a result of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Does > that > show up in any data? Your recent graph doesn't go back that far and it's > got > a full scale of 2000 microseconds so a few is going to be hard to see. > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
