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Why Cesium-133 Defines a Second — and Why ODTOE Says That's Wrong — Overview

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Since 1967 the SI second has been 9,192,631,770 cycles of cesium-133. The choice is engineering convenience, not metaphysics. ODTOE argues the true unit of time

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Since 1967 the SI second has been 9,192,631,770 cycles of cesium-133. The choice is engineering convenience, not metaphysics. ODTOE argues the true unit of time is observer-internal: coherence cycles, not atomic ticks.

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