Q & A: Don’t Cosmologists Use a More Universal Time Unit Than Years?

Monday, January 21, 2013 - 22:30 in Astronomy & Space

Modern measurement of time builds on the second, based on atomic oscillation, rather than on the variable time it takes Earth to make one orbit of the Sun.

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