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World's most precise clock achieves 19-decimal accuracy with aluminum ion technology
There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...
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We Have a New Record For The Most Accurate Clock Ever Built
The 54-pound NWA 16788 has set a new world record as the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction. The first major ...
Time to be redefined as scientists design most accurate clock ever
Possibly originating with the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "time and tide wait for no man," the idea that time waits for ...
World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam
However, aluminum is tricky. The element is difficult to measure with lasers, as well as cool to absolute zero. But when ...
optics.org3d
NIST’s ion clock claims record for ‘most accurate in the world’
Optical clocks are typically evaluated on two levels — accuracy (how close a clock comes to measuring the ideal “true” time, ...
NewsBytes10d
World's most accurate clock measures time to 19 decimals
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record by developing the world's most accurate clock, ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN11d
World’s most accurate atomic clock uses 2-mile laser beam to track time precisely
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set a new world record for the most accurate aluminum ion-based ...
Tech Explorist6d
The most accurate atomic clock to date
Jacobson/NIST After two decades of tinkering, scientists at NIST have unveiled the world’s most accurate atomic clock, a ...
Knowridge Science Report6d
World’s most accurate clock could rewrite how we measure time
Scientists in the U.S. have built the most accurate clock in the world—so precise it can measure time down to 19 decimal ...
Gizmodo13y
The Short, Strange History of Decimal Time - Gizmodo
There’s certainly something to this – instead of .333…, 1/3 would be .4 in base-12, and 1/4 gets shortened from .25 to .3. 1/5 has to become the repeating decimal .24972497…, and 1/7 is ...
Physics World1y
Decimal time: life in a world where our days are divided differently
About face The Clockwork Conspiracy conjures up a world where decimal time becomes reality which is not as mad as it seems: this decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny c. 1798–1805. (CC ...
Orange County Register6y
The times are changing when it comes to clocks
No wonder “a quarter past nine” or “half past eight” don’t make sense to a 10-year-old. In the language of digital clocks, my after-school tutoring student refers to those times as 9:15 ...