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A comment on Time and Frequency (2009).

Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by wyager on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:53PM (#28475636)
“Time is the thing that can be measured with more precision than any other quantity.”

This is a matter of perspective - the agreeability of this statement an artifact of the fact that we are much longer in the time direction than in any other direction.

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Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by hirundo on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:44PM (#28476066)
Really? What's the exchange rate in length between seconds and meters?
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Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by flamingcow on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:49PM (#28476107)
c?
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Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by teitoklien on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:23PM (#28477467)
Only to our eyes
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Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by wyager on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:47PM (#28485587)
No, the metric tensor has c built into it.
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Re:Time and Frequency (2009) by wyager on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:46PM (#28485584)
c is the conversion factor. It’s built into our +++- metric tensor.
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