Psychohistorical Crisis

Appendix A

GALACTIC STANDARD TIME

One jiff is 3,066,899 cycles of light from cesium 133

One second is 9,192,631,770 cycles of light from cesium 133

Velocity of light is 100 million meters/jiff

Light year = 9,460.471452 trillion meters League = 10,000 trillion meters

A Galactic Standard Year: = the time it takes light to travel 10,000 trillion meters = 12.87 months = 386.067 days

A Galactic Standard Month: = the time it takes light to travel 1000 trillion meters = 1/10 GST year = 1.29 months = 38.31 days = 926.57 hours

A Galactic Standard Watch: = the time it takes light to travel ten trillion meters = 1/100 GST month = 0.38 days = 9.26 hours = 555.94 minutes

A Galactic Standard Hour:

= the time it takes light to travel a trillion meters = 1/10 GST watch = .93 hours = 55.59 minutes = 3,335.64 seconds

A Galactic Standard Inamin:

= the time it takes light to travel ten billion meters = 1/100 GST hour = 33.356 seconds = 0.556 minutes

A Galactic Standard Jiff: = the time it takes light to travel 100 million meters = 1/100 GST inamin = 0.33356 seconds

An Archaic Year: = the time it takes Rith to orbit Sol = 0.946 GST years = 94,604,714.58 jiffs

An Archaic Month Varied at the Whim of Despots:

7,252,579 jiffs = 28 days

7,648,305 jiffs = 29.52 days, the time it takes the Moon to orbit Rith

7,770,620 jiffs = 30 days = 77.71 watches 8,029,641 jiffs = 31 days

An Archaic Day: = the time it takes Rith to complete one rotation around Sol = 2.59 GST watches = 25.90 GST hours = 259,020.68 GST jiffs

An Archaic Hour: = 1/24 archaic day = 1.08 GST hours = 107.93 GST inamins = 10,793 GST jiffs

An Archaic Minute: = 1/60 archaic hour = 1.80 inamins = 179.87 jiffs

An Archaic Second = 1/60 minute = 2.998 jiffs