[time-nuts] Re: The SI second and the ease of realization (was: leap seconds finally being retired?)

Tue Nov 29 07:59:18 UTC 2022

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JÃ¼rgen Appel via time-nuts writes:

> Another fun-fact for all time-nerds on the other side of the Atlantic trying
> to do the intercontinental version of this experiment:
> The Doppler-red-shift due to continental drift of ~1cm/year is of the same
> order of magnitude: (1 cm / year)/c = 10^-18 as well.

Not to mention uplift from the most recent glaciation.

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