[LEAPSECS] Nit-pick: SI second

[Mark Calabretta]

On Thu 2011/02/10 16:34:19 PDT, Rob Seaman wrote
in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>


>	"Unfortunately, Sagnac's experiment has never been performed

>accurately enough to discern whether the period of absolute rotation is

>the solar day of 24 hours or the sidereal day of 23 hours, 56 minutes."


Heartfelt thanks to the Association for Biblical Astronomy for a
light-hearted interlude.


>...I wonder what they make of the CMB dipole anisotropy?


Or Foucault's pendulum.

Regards,
Mark Calabretta