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New Atomic Clock Pushes Boundaries of Accuracy

Posted by timothy on from the pushes-them-the-right-way-even dept.

Neophytus writes "An interesting story on the BBC reports on how a new type of atomic clock is near completion that would only loose about a second in every 100 million years. Within ten years they hope to have a clock with billion year accuracy which would potentially bring advances in disease research by watching timing genes. More reports from this year's AAAS Annual meeting can be found on the BBC, and information about the event on the AAAS Annual Meeting website."

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  1. Speed of light by Oriumpor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    am I mistaken, or will this clock (or the technology therin) help nasa and the relativity theorists? The already have "precise" clocks according to this

    It was my understanding that the more precise the clock the easier it would be to test the speed of light.