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RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 00:08:25 +0100

Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:

What you mean is that it is subject to periodicities and forces which
you do not understand, and that within your limited perception, this
ignorance is taken as "irregularity".  Just because the system
encompasses rules and properties beyond your understanding and
observation does not mean that it is magic.

You seem to have a strange interpretation of the word "irregular". All I
mean is that it does not rotate at a regular rate, i.e. smoothly. It is
not a regular oscillator.

Tony.
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