Thursday, February 28, 2008

"Oh Thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool."

From Shakespeare's, Henry the IV.A sketch of a "time piece" reported to be over 6000 years old. By international agreement 1 second is the precise interval it takes for an atom of the element cesium to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting tidbit, bet you didn't know one of the claims to fame for my company is that we make cesium clocks!...dwh..