[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Magnus Danielson]

On 18/01/14 08:57, Brooks Harris wrote:

> On 2014-01-17 11:15 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:

>>

>> Let's face it, this lump of orbital debris we call our home planet is

>> what we have as a reference and try to have common set of references.

>> This is our "universe".

>>

>

> The "universe" is a little larger than that for the astronomers. "Earth

> time" would have made more sense.


You are missing my point, the word "universe" have different meanings, 
and when originally used for UTC it was used to mean a coordinated time 
for that "lump of orbital debris" and not for the "Universe". Thus, 
using a particular interpretation of the word as an argument is not very 
fruitful. It is just not very suitable choice of words, at least in english.

Cheers,
Magnus