Something Completely Different

My lovely wife Melissa brought one of these home from her many travels.  It’s a wireless, radio-controlled weather station and its pretty cool.  The feature that intrigues me the most though is the fact that the unit provides radio controlled time.  The clock is fed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology-Time and Frequency Division, meaning it keeps time based on the atomic clock in Boulder, CO.  I was aware that the atomic clock was quite accurate but I was not aware that it was accurate to within ten billionths of a second per day.  A second is measured by the 9,192,631,770 vibrations that are emitted from a Cesium-133 atom in a vacuum.  It’s no wonder life is so good.  I’m reveling in every one of the 9,192,631,770 vibrations each second gives me.

Posted by on 12/15 at 05:02 AM

  1. Your wife is lovely, and so is your new site! COOL DUDE!

    Posted by  on  12/15  at  08:41 AM

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