Overheard from a senior NASA research metrologist: "The only reason we're doing it is because we *can* (improving clock accuracy, said in the context of the aluminum clock). We can already time so accurately, just as an example, that if we launched a spacecraft today toward Sirius we could predict its location when the craft arrived many thousands of years from now, to within a thousand miles or so."
That's not a precise quote but it is a close paraphrase. Heck, I thought that was why time nuts did it, anyway. "Because it's there." George Mallory, 1924 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
