On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 5:51:44 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Because you can have bazillions of them and get a pretty accurate interval by counting up to say a million decay events. Brent > Who or what does the counting? Seems rather impractical. AG *Of course it's impractical, no engineer in his right mind would want to make a clock that way, but this is a thought experiment and in thought experiments you're only interested in if something is theoretically possible, its practicality is irrelevant. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* True, but I remain unclear how one could construct a clock in that situation, or allegedly in the simpler case of Cesium 133,. AG mnb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a11db020-5d5f-4442-ac68-6ab35d831f23n%40googlegroups.com.
