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AtkinsSJ
12-04-2008, 10:47 AM
It's been discovered, to the great embarrassment of the scientific community, that a second is actually 27.5 milliseconds slower than an actual second.
Full article here (http://tubecodes.com/watch=65I0HNvTDH4).
Mr.Onion
12-04-2008, 10:49 AM
As it turns out, the Johns of Awesome™ has solved the problem. (http://tubecodes.com/watch=T1j6k1hxfcA)
TyTBone
12-04-2008, 11:19 AM
a second is actually 27.5 milliseconds slower than an actual second.

Well maybe if it had more Bawls regularly [as part of a wholesome nutritious breakfast], the caffiene and sugar would speed it up. That's mah mynd's logik, anyway.
Connor S.
12-04-2008, 12:28 PM
Time IS broken, but not for the reasons you mentioned. Ive been trying to tell you all on the chat for months... but no one would listen... NO ONE! *twitch*
TyTBone
12-04-2008, 01:47 PM
no one would listen... NO ONE!

CL heard, then...
Baconstrips
12-04-2008, 03:22 PM
Actually, a year is a little less than a year, so they have leap-years. They also have leap seconds, and if a remember correctly, we had one last "year".
Ubernoob
12-06-2008, 09:34 PM
How can a second be less than a second? That statement is self-inconsistent. Do you mean that some measurement has been made more accurately than before which shows that something which used to take a second now takes slightly less? Surely a second is essentially an arbitrary unit of time. And time flows in a non-linear way sometimes, does it not?
TyTBone
12-06-2008, 10:38 PM
How can a second be less than a second? That statement is self-inconsistent. Do you mean that some measurement has been made more accurately than before which shows that something which used to take a second now takes slightly less? Surely a second is essentially an arbitrary unit of time. And time flows in a non-linear way sometimes, does it not?

http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/bertmug.gif

More related...

http://www.tubecodes.com/watch=aFkR8Yx-PXA
Mr.Onion
12-07-2008, 02:54 AM
How can a second be less than a second? That statement is self-inconsistent. Do you mean that some measurement has been made more accurately than before which shows that something which used to take a second now takes slightly less? Surely a second is essentially an arbitrary unit of time. And time flows in a non-linear way sometimes, does it not?
No, a second is defined as an exact amount of atomic vibrations.