[time-nuts] gravity controlled pendulumn clock?

[Rob Kimberley]

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Rob

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From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Don Latham
Sent: 13 December 2011 18:38
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] gravity controlled pendulumn clock?

Yes, but different seconds. I learned many years ago to use the RSF
(rod-stone-fortnight) system of units. Small errors are much smaller...
Don

Jim Lux
> On 12/13/11 8:57 AM, Bob Bownes wrote:
>> What's metric or Common Measure about seconds? ;)
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> AN excellent point.. aren't seconds the only unit that is the same in 
> basically all measurement systems?  there's cgs, mks, SI, Imperial, US 
> Customary, Avoirdupois, etc  and they all use seconds.
>
>
> And since this is timenuts.. where did the second originate (I recall 
> a story about Galileo counting heartbeats for his experiments rolling 
> balls down ramps... but that sounds a bit too convenient).
>
> Is it just dividing hours by 60 to get minutes and minutes by 60 to 
> get seconds  (as my daughter was wont to say when learning fractions: 
> curse those Babylonians)
>
> http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/2209.pdf
>
> makes it seem to be Claudius Ptolemy
>
>
>
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