• VonReposti@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    The definition of a second is the time it takes for a caesium-133 atom to fluctuate between its two hyperfine ground state 9,192,631,770 times (I did not look the number up).

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      2 days ago

      Congrats 😃👍 btw in that time light in vacuum will travel 299,792,458 metres (didn’t look that up either)