Re:Timeline of the far future
by smt88 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @07:12PM
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Can you explain how the duration of a second affects the metre?
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Re:Timeline of the far future
by supermdguy on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @07:24PM
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Not OP, but "The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in
1/299 792 458 second"
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
Re:Timeline of the far future
by mockingbirdy on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:44AM
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The duration of a second is defined using Caesium-133 [1], not using anything else like daytime or rotational speed. It's independent of such factors and will always be the same in a given frame of reference. No need to update those values.
edit: I think it will lead to the same or more problems because everyone would have to change all time-related constants. Easier to add a second to the day constant (because the day constant is a subset of the seconds constant, but the seconds constant affects many more aspects than just the day constant).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_caesium#Caesium-13...
But in that case, doesn't the "second" constant change (or the coefficient) and a metre remains the same length?
Re:Timeline of the far future
by supermdguy on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:00PM
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A meterstick would remain the same length, but the SI meter's length would change.