[time-nuts] Atom of time?

[J. Forster]

I don't think it's really a unit of time in the sense we know it.

Atom, from the Greek, is basically the smallest chunk of somthing, not
divisible into smaller parts.

So an Atom of Time, would be the smallest interval of time, by analogy.

It seems to be more a religeous term to do with revelation theology than
Physics.

What was the Category?

FWIW,
-John

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> 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.
>
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