Recent content by Not_a_dork

I appreciate the thoughtful responses. I am glad this thread took a detour into why the US has not accepted the Metric system. One of my favorite topics to discuss with the previous generation. I am constantly amazed at how much emotion is involved in keeping the current system. My Dad is of the...

Hello, While riding home today, I started to wonder what was the definition of a second in the context of time. I looked it up and found out that the definition has changed somewhat over the years and it is now defined as (paraphrased) 9,192,631,770 periods of the cesium atom. A meter is...