[time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ??

[Eric Lemmon]

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: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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<
> david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk>  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: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of Jerry Mulchin
>> Sent: 09 May 2012 01:56
>> To: jfor at quikus.com; 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
>>
>>
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