The era of nuclear clocks is almost here: What it means for the world
Nuclear clocks could be more accurate than atomic clocks by a factor of about 10, potentially leading to improved GPS ...
Hackaday5 年
100 Year Old Atomic Clock
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 ...
Nature1 年
Possibilities open up in time
In 2001, Japanese physicist Hidetoshi Katori proposed a new type of atomic clock that only loses a second every 30 billion years, a period longer than the current age of the universe. The ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock
The precision of atomic clocks and the atomic time scale are considered in the context of fundamental physical research, with relation to general relativity and applications such as the Global ...
Mint5 天
The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
Premium Ekkehard Peik, one of the field’s pioneers, says such a clock could be a factor of 1,000 times better than today’s standard atomic clocks. Image: Pixabay FOR THE discerning timekeeper ...
Hackaday1 年
An Atomic Pendulum Clock Accurate Enough For CERN
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 ...
Wired8 年
atomic clock
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is ...
How the World Wars forged modern time
From the humble wristwatch to the atomic clock, innovations that came out of global conflicts transformed our relationship ...
BBC5 年
Nasa puts up deep-space atomic clock
Nasa has put a miniaturised atomic clock in orbit that it believes can revolutionise deep-space navigation. About the size of a toaster, the device is said to have 50 times the stability of ...
ThePrint on MSN7 个月
Soon, ISRO’s rubidium atomic clock will determine time on your smartphone & laptop. What ...
Bengaluru: Joining a club of four other countries, India is all set to sync Indian computers with the domestically developed ...
Merging atomic clocks with quantum computers could lead to ultraprecise measurements of ...
The method merges state-of-the-art atomic clocks with quantum computers. "Our goal is to get to the ultimate precision ...
BBC1 年
Flotilla of boats carries atomic clock on Thames
But the River Thames is perhaps the choice for the most special deliveries - including an optical atomic clock. A flotilla of 15 boats, led by royal barge Jubilant, has carried the extremely ...