The leap second that will make this year, 2016, longer than most people will expect — was the subject of an opera that premiered three months ago, as part of the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at Harvard University. The mini-opera is called “The Last Second“. It’s about a plot to secretly add an extra leap […]
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The operatic good timing of the leap-second decision
The decision to create a leap second at the end of 2016 is timely, in oh so many ways. It especially delights us, because this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will include the premier of a new mini-opera, called “The Last Second” — about a plot to secretly add an extra leap second to the world’s clocks. A […]
Leap second dating
Speed dating can be accelerated in name, and converted into a physics concept. A new study by Takehisa Fujita and Naohiro Kanda of Nihon University, Tokyo, explains: We propose a novel dating method (Leap Second Dating) which enables to determine the construction date of some archaeological objects such as Stonehenge. The study is “Physics of […]