[time-nuts] Time of death-Again

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 03:32:16 UTC 2010


How about some alignment of the planets that has occurred in the
lifetime of the Earth but only happens infrequently on a celestial
timescale.

Steve

On 29 October 2010 15:01, Max Robinson <max at maxsmusicplace.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of the nova event itself as a reference point in time.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme at americafree.tv>
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
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> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time of death-Again
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>>
>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Max Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> How about the crab supernova.
>>>
>>
>> Msec pulsars are much more stable - see http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.5534 for
>> some comparisons.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marshall
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
>>> <time-nuts at febo.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:30 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time of death-Again
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>>>
>>>> Steve Rooke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing we should bear in mind that our tombstone timestamp should
>>>>> have things like the timezone, and calendar in use, references, such
>>>>> that future people can determine the exact point in time of our death.
>>>>> In fact, basing the timestamp on some true reference point would
>>>>> better than about 2000 years after some event happened on earth as
>>>>> archaeologists from other words coming to the Earth in the future
>>>>> would be left to figure out this arbitrary time event. I would propose
>>>>> that we relate the year portion (which is the LSB and most important)
>>>>> to some celestial event thereby making it possible to document this
>>>>> easily for future life-forms to determine. The whole year/date thing
>>>>> really should be made secular as there is no place for religion in the
>>>>> governance of society.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this not the same problem we all face when specifying an absolute
>>>> time? Is it TAI? GPS? UTC? etc.
>>>>
>>>> And, then, if you are moving, the local time offsettime  relative to
>>>> some reference might be different at different times.
>>>>
>>>> I think this is a sort of relativity question, isn't it?  That is, you
>>>> just have to pick some place/time, and reference everything else to that. So
>>>> which astronomical event do you want use as your reference (e.g. a T=0
>>>> epoch)and is it sufficiently well determined that you can figure it out
>>>> later?  It's all well and good, for instance, to use noon on January 1st,
>>>> 1900 or something as your time zero, but that's hardly a universally
>>>> available reference point.
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