• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    proton masses are rather small - inconvenient

    the distance light travels at a certain time - then it’ll just be based on our artificial units of time

    cesium oscillation i don’t know much about but from what i quickly read it’s also about keeping time, 1s to be precise, which is still an arbitrary unit

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      11 days ago

      Time can be non arbitrarily defined as a round number value of times cesium oscillates between two hyperfine states, to allow time to be non arbitrary and still a useful size.