On 01/16/2012 02:13 AM, Tom Harris wrote:
Actually a friend who lived in Rome proposed a new European definition of the nanosecond as the time between the lights going green and the sound of the horn of the car behind you. I still remember driving in the rushhour in Rome, now _that_ was scary.
And here I thought the femtofourthnight was a satisfactory solution. When in Turin I took the cab... and well, it was a fascinating experience.
However, just the rising slope of the sound-wave will be slow enough to make ns precision measurements um... interesting.
Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ 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.
