Why 1 Second Is 1 Second

Discovery Magazine ^ | 18 Jan, 2017 | Nathaniel Scharping

[Boogieman]

Probably for the same reason lonely rivers flow to the open arms of the sea.

[Boogieman]

“All measurements should mimic the decimal system.”

Get out of here, Frenchy!

[1Old Pro]

Why are there 24 hours in a ‘day’?.................

Why are there 5 days to a work week.

[Red Badger]

That’s only in certain countries..........

[rlmorel]

LOL, THAT one I know well!

[ZinGirl]

Call it whatever you want....won’t help my daughter get ready to go out any faster. ;)

[Boogieman]

Well they used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months, when the Romans used a 10 month calendar. At that point, I think “December” just covered the entire winter, so they later split that up and created January and February.

[George from New England]

“It is the amount of time it takes for a pendulum that is exactly one meter long to travel from one end to the other.”

Would that be different on the moon ? On Mars ? In space it would not swing at all.

[P-Marlowe]

Actually it is only on earth at sea level with an average barometric reading.

[IronJack]

That’s because July and August were added in, Julius named after Julius Caesar, and August after Augustus.

[IronJack]

Add a day to the Slack Week once every four years.

[Deaf Smith]

Everyone has missed it

There are 12 months and 4 weeks per due women's cycles.

This occured once the light bulb went off in modern man's head, that PMS was what was causing all the problems in dealing with the "woman"

PMS was defined as Pre,Post and Present.

There was a "safe" unit of time that seemed to last the length of the other three. This coincided with the Moon phases; hence 4 weeks and 12 months. 12 seemed to be the reason for 12 am's and 12 pm's due to when woman was awake and asleep (peaceful time)

This is about the time that "man cave" was coined.

That is how man came up with the measure of time.

[MtnClimber]

:)

[Daffynition]

Love your theory...but how do you factor love into it?

[Deaf Smith]

Your's is the theory of the "Rebound", also known as the Bouncing Back into the relationship.

Gravity always prevails.

[going hot]

ONE “9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom”.

Two “9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom”.

THree “9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom”.

Hmm, gonna be a while counting seconds from now on.

[Daffynition]

:)

[MtnClimber]

Yes, not as easy as “tic tock” any more.

[DennisR]

Even the French have some things right...

[DennisR]

I like it!