[time-nuts] Atom of time?

Max Robinson max at maxsmusicplace.com
Sat Aug 22 19:12:40 UTC 2009


John asked.

What was the Category?

I don't remember clearly.  It may have been history.

Regards.

Max.  K 4 O D S.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
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Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Atom of time?


>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
>
> ==============
>
>
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Email: max at maxsmusicplace.com
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