On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 19:58, Andy Lipscomb <AndyLipscomb@decosimo.com>wrote:
The latter is more complicated, given that the orbit and rotational speed of the ball in question weren't set up with reference to the energy level difference between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom, and that both change over time.
*both*? Surely, sir, you jest.
I have a Cs atom calibrated by BIPM, preserved in a bottle of snake oil, which it breaks my heart to sell, but I have an old mother ...
Both the orbit and the rotational speed, I think he might mean...
Aah. That makes sense. I thought the reference was to a change in the basic constants (that the ground state was changing). -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane