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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Art on June 05, 2021, 13:55:07 PM

Title: Size matters! A Timely subject...
Post by: Art on June 05, 2021, 13:55:07 PM
People toss numbers around without realizing the magnitude of their size. For instance, the lonely second.

1 hundred seconds is about 1.6 minutes

1 thousand seconds is about 16.6 minutes

1 million seconds is about 11 days.

1 billion seconds is about 32.5 years.

1 trillion seconds is about 31,688 years.
Title: Re: Size matters! A Timely subject...
Post by: Snowcrash on June 08, 2021, 16:23:35 PM
Puny scale. Your head's in the clouds, mine is in the stars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Are9dDbW24
Title: Re: Size matters! A Timely subject...
Post by: Freddy on June 08, 2021, 17:24:49 PM
Nice  8)

I like videos like that, I always thought the universe is like a Fractal.
Title: Re: Size matters! A Timely subject...
Post by: Art on June 09, 2021, 12:46:43 PM
Hmm...the Flat-Earth Society is NOT going to be pleased!!  :LOL:
Title: Re: Size matters! A Timely subject...
Post by: Snowcrash on June 14, 2021, 22:29:26 PM
And the humble second is no longer 1/86,400th of a day. Due to days not always being 24 hours and the moon stealing our angular momentum and GPS satellites requiring very accurate time, the second is now defined as...

Quote...being equal to the time duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the fundamental unperturbed ground-state of the caesium-133 atom.
link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second)

And this is almost relevant...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_XlpU3Kqk
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