John Cowan said:
> This cure is infinitely worse than the disease. It would entail that
> the speed of light depends on the current value of UTC, and all sorts
> of other physical measurements as well.
Nonsense.
By this argument, the speed of light depends on the current value of UT1 as
well.
The SI second is used by TAI and UTC. UT1 has a different second, whose
length (in SI seconds) varies in a complicated manner. This new UTS would
have a second whose length is either 1.000, 0.999, or 1.001 SI seconds. No
new problems.
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Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 13:37:49 PDT