[time-nuts] One Kg Quartz Resonator

[Mike S]

On 1/23/2013 3:34 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 02:32 AM, Mike S wrote:
>> Can you have a Cs under zero acceleration and at zero temperature, the
>> only conditions for which the second is defined? Since most metric units
>> are derived from the definition of the second, are any "primary
>> standards," in your opinion?
>
> Isn't it defined for zero sea-level, that is standard acceleration?

"At its 1997 meeting the CIPM affirmed that:
This definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0 
K." - http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-1/second.html

Sea-level would be 1 g of acceleration, would it not?