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Keeping Time with a Mercury Atom
Roland Piquepaille writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that a new experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than NIST-F1, the U.S. standard clock. This mercury atomic clock 'would neither gain nor lose a second in about 400 million years' while it would take 'only' 70 million years to NIST-F1, based on a 'fountain' of cesium atoms, to gain or lose a second. But even if this new kind of optical atomic clock is more accurate than cesium microwave clocks, it will take a while before such a design can be accepted as an international standard. A ZDNet summary contains pictures and more details about the world's most precise clock."
I officially throw open this whole topic to be used for
bitching about Roland Piquepaille.
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Yes, you understand the buzz words. Now take a course or two for a real understanding :) (and no, a generic wishy-washy book with pretty pictures for the layman doesn't count)
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And what happens when ALL those clocks loose second per million years at the same rate? You will not catch such error.