Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic ...
With access to a 10-MHz timebase from a cesium fountain atomic clock — no less a clock than the one that’s used to define the SI second, by the way — [Daniel] looked for ways to sync the ...
Nuclear clocks could upgrade our most advanced, state-of-the-art atomic clocks by a factor of ten, which means they would potentially drop one second every 300 billion years. Compared to the power ...