Smaug's Palace

Getting level-2 Smaug his level-2 palace back while eating dinnerL1 like1:


Changing from getting level-2 jade leaf charms from atomic clocksL1 to getting them from pulsarsL1 like1:


"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."2

"We have discovered a 716-Hz eclipsing binary radio pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5 using the Green Bank Telescope."3

1. "Appendix 18." http://pan0ramics.blogspot.com/p/appendix-18.html.
2. The International System of Units (SI). 8th edition, The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), 2006, p.113, https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf.
3. Hessels JWT, et al. "A Radio Pulsar Spinning at 716 Hz." Science, 16 Jan. 2006, 311 (5769): 1901–1904, arXiv:astro-ph/0601337.

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