Leap Second At The End of 2005

Ruff_ilb writes "Because of the discrepency between an ephemeris second (the fraction 1/31,556,925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time) and the second of atomic time (the duration of 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), we're left with more than leap years. In order to ensure that the the atomic time and civil stay coordinated, "Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one second increments to ensure that the difference between a uniform time scale defined by atomic clocks does not differ from the Earth's rotational time by more than 0.9 seconds."" And Happy New Years everyone ;)

Comments

Re:The hard way

[Hymer]

If we look at your proposal more seriously : Greenpeace (and other environmental organizations) would protest against it until a investigation of the consequences was successfully completed. The conclusion of the investigation would state that the consequnces can't be predicted with 100% accuracy but there is a 30 % chance of earth colliding into the sun, 30 % chance of erth going out in deep space and 30 % chance of success... the last 10 % were eaten by the lab rats.

Re:The hard way

[__aahlyu4518]

"I demand that George Bush pull us out of whatever God forsaken U.N. treaty that got us into this mess."

Or he can do what he does with all other treaties.... either ignore them or don't participate because the short-term economy is obviously much more important than our children's future.

Re:The hard way

[rts008]

1. Collect/harness all of the "hot air" blowing around on this site, combine with the heat/energy released from /.'ed servers, focus this combined heat/energy through nozzle (ie: rocket engine nozzle) aimed at correct direction on earth's equator= increased rpm's! 2. patent and DRM process. 3.????? 4. profit ?!?!