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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: 'Parsec' as a unit of time - (nf)
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uokvax!rigney    Dec 16 14:54:00 1983

Except the number of seconds in an arc is arbitrary, too.
There's no universal reason for 60 seconds to a minute,
60 minutes to a degree, 360 degrees to a circle.
2pi radians in a circumference is universal, but it seems
more likely that universal measurements would be based on
powers of two times the fundamental constants of physics
(planck's constant, speed of light, or whatever).

I don't believe Han said Parsec any more than I believe they
were all speaking English "a long, long time ago," obviously
when the language gets translated, the measuring system is
expressed in familiar terms as well.

	Carl
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