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[–] captainlezbian 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah and second is a 60th of a 60th of a 24th of a day. We just found the number of times cesium vibrates in that amount of time. 60 and 24 seem arbitrary to us now, but in addition to giving nice and useful chunks of time, they're numbers that wouldn't feel as arbitrary to ancient folks