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In Search of Lost Time. Harper's magazine article.

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Steven Sommars
Sun, Dec 24, 2023 4:21 PM

Article featuring our friends from NIST T&F.
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt (harpers.org)
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/

Article featuring our friends from NIST T&F. In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt (harpers.org) <https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/>
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Steve Allen
Sun, Dec 31, 2023 3:14 PM

On Sun 2023-12-24T10:21:39-0600 Steven Sommars via time-nuts hath writ:

Article featuring our friends from NIST T&F.
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt (harpers.org)
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/

When Judah exclaims that his job is forecasting he echoes what
Armand Lambert of BIH at Observatoire de Paris said to Le Matin in 1939
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k586419k/f1.item
with the headline
What time is it? the impossibility of an exact response

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On Sun 2023-12-24T10:21:39-0600 Steven Sommars via time-nuts hath writ: > Article featuring our friends from NIST T&F. > In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt (harpers.org) > <https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/> When Judah exclaims that his job is forecasting he echoes what Armand Lambert of BIH at Observatoire de Paris said to Le Matin in 1939 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k586419k/f1.item with the headline What time is it? the impossibility of an exact response -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m