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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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot () dotat at> http://dotat.at/ Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger: Southeast 4 or 5, decreasing 3 at times. Slight or moderate. Rain or drizzle, fog patches. Moderate, occasionally very poor.
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