[time-nuts] Atom of time?
Gary Chatters
gcarlistaa at garychatters.com
Sat Aug 22 19:05:29 UTC 2009
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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