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Old Fri Jul 24, 2009, 08:32am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
... The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
If that is the measurement of a second how could it have been scientifically defined prior to the 20th Century?

And why is that the measurement?
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