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Hibernation Information and Measuring a Second

We Have Concerns

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What Is Atomic Time?

Atomic time is measuring how long it takes an electron to circle a nucleus, right? Sosesium. Once a year we have to turn off the vesesium clocks for a second and let them cat up. It's not just that, but it's what that means for gravity, at that means for the change of weight. The speed of the rotation of the earth has slowed down a little bit. But our position in space has changed. All these things are changing, which makes what we feel and count as a second, one one thousand, two, one thousand three, one thousand,. That's different than what an atom knows as a second. And it's slowly been

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