"John Smith I" wrote in message
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Jimmie D wrote:

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Units of measurement are totally arbitrary, what they are measuring isnt.
It is irrelevant how long a second is as long as everyone agrees. Time
has nothing to do with the existance of cesium. The origonal basis for
the second was the roatation of the earth but that is not constant so it
was redefined I believe in the 60s, seems like I remember hearing about
it in HS.

Jimmie:

There is much common sense in what you state.

However, I see us at a point where no more real advances in knowledge can
be made until we do have an understanding of what these arbitrary units
ARE measuring--at present, all we really understand are our units ...

Regards,
JS

There are a lot of things about the universe we really dont understand, time
and gravity are just two. Our understanding of time is just a theory like
gravity but so far all we think we know about it seems to work. I dont worry
much about falling up when I get out of bed in the morning. Arguing about it
is as fruitless as telling someone why an arbitrailly thrown together pile
of metal isnt a breakthrough in antenna design. Where do you start??

Jimmie

Jimmie