Judah Levine This is Me

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1. 1. Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line: Science Archives

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   Published on: 2/14/2007   Last Visited: 2/21/2007

   Last summer, I saw a talk by Judah Levine of NIST who seems to know more than anyone else on the planet about keeping time with atomic clocks, especially important for astronomers, who need to synchronize their clocks with the position of objects in the heavens, and even more important for astronomers who observe pulsars, lighthouse-like spinning neutron stars whose pulses are reckoned to be as regular as the most precise atomic clocks on earth.

2. 2. News, Weather, Mozart, Sports, Restaurant Guide & Perverted Videogames from Vleeptron: December 2005

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   Published on: 12/1/2005   Last Visited: 5/4/2006

   "Astronomers wanted a time scale that represented the Earth's movement, and the clock community wanted a smooth scale," said physicist Judah Levine of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, who favors eliminating leap seconds.
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   "The idea that it's going to be midnight in the middle of the afternoon is just nonsense," Levine said.
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   In recent years, time mavens opened a discussion about what to do, and a "general consensus" emerged that "the advantage to astronomy was not worth the pain and suffering of leap seconds," Levine said.

3. 3. ideaFestival

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   Published on: 1/1/2002   Last Visited: 1/26/2008

   Bio: Judah Levine
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   Judah Levine (NIST) Fellow of JILA