[time-nuts] Atom of time?

[Max Robinson]

Thanks.  I'll look at this later.  SWMBO  wants me to mow the lawn.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Chatters" <gcarlistaa at garychatters.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Atom of time?


>
> 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.
>>
>
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