Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Tick Tick Tick

In the International System of Units (SI), a second is defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium-133 atom, specifically (per the International Bureau of Weights and Measures), that many "periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

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