Awkward if you lose count after 9,192,631,670 transitions and have to start again.
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Or, if you used an 32-bit integer to count and got an overflow!
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is this like a hype series for the new definition of the kilogram? lol
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What is life? Baby dont hurt me. No more.
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That is to say that light travels every second at 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Cesium-133 atom. Beautiful loop.
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Wait. Don’t they have to define where this occurs? I’m assuming that near the event horizon of a black hole, this transition may take a long time to an observer in flatter space?
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I'd think they're supposed to be in the same frame of reference by default
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A second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Cesium-133 atom.
It was originally defined as the fraction 1/86,400 of a mean solar day.
One meter is the distance traveled by light through a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
It was originally defined as 10⁻⁷ of the distance measured over the earth's surface of a great circle from the north pole to the equator, and passing through Paris.