World's most precise clock gets even more precise

[William Fenn]

On 8/24/2013 12:23 PM, Alberto di Bene wrote:

"The expansion of the universe is an illusion caused by the slowing of
time".


 Everyone knows that the passage of time is relative to the observer.
Invariably, time's passage is always inversely proportional to the fun
factor.
Hence the expression, time flies when you're having fun. It doesn't take an
Einstein to realize that.

Richard

 

Just another thing to add to these Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors

 

Bill

N4TS

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line

13. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

14. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

15. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

16. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

17. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

18. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

19. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle

20. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle

21. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

22. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

23. 10 rations = 1 decaration

24. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration

25. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

26. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 I.V. League

 

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