{"id":56140,"date":"2020-04-02T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56140"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:48:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:48:45","slug":"what-exactly-is-one-second-james-mays-qa-ep-2-head-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/04\/02\/what-exactly-is-one-second-james-mays-qa-ep-2-head-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly is one second? | James May&#8217;s Q&#038;A (Ep 2) | Head Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXRVtfCpLr4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Earth Lab<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Jan 2013<\/p>\n<p>James May discusses what exactly a seconds is. He also delves into how time as we know it could have been totally different. This is because the second had many &#8220;rivals&#8221; over the years that never got their way.<\/p>\n<p>Outtakes from this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kLpGHta0kWQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kLpGHt&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James May&#8217;s Q&#038;A:<br \/>\nWith his own unique spin, James May asks and answers the oddball questions that we&#8217;ve all wondered about from &#8220;What exactly is one second?&#8221; to &#8220;Is invisibility possible?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-02-What-exactly-is-one-second-James-May\u2019s-Q-A-Ep-2-Head-Squeeze.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Earth Lab Published 10 Jan 2013 James May discusses what exactly a seconds is. He also delves into how time as we know it could have been totally different. This is because the second had many &#8220;rivals&#8221; over the years that never got their way. Outtakes from this video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kLpGHt&#8230; James May&#8217;s Q&#038;A: With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526,7,16],"tags":[454,588,1305],"class_list":["post-56140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-egypt","tag-jamesmay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eBu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56143,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions\/56143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}