have you ever wonder "what makes a second...a second?", wayyyy off topic Options

[lubu]

I was driving home one day in my belove celica....a question popped up in my head "what makes a second, a second"??...i know there are atomic clocks that miss a second in like 1 million year but how did we even measure a second in the first place...?

Now, a day consists of 24 hours and 1hr=3600 seconds. But we could have had 12 hours in a day and keep the same duration of a second so the number of seconds would still be 3600..it just takes twice as long to move a second to a second...so how and what instument were used to measure a second??

Imagine a second's duration were 10 times faster than today than one would says "yez..my celica can do 0-60mph in abt 60 seconds.." LOL ...yep thats a minute.

[Silver94CelicaOw...]

I'm going to play a game and guess why this thought came into your head while driving your beloved Celica...haha.

I bet it had something to do with somebody asking if your car was fast, then saying something to you along the lines of, "for a car to be fast, its gotta run like a 11 second quarter mile, bro!" to which you may have replied, "that uhhh....all depends on what your definition of a second is..."


Hence why this discussion started.