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General => Science => Topic started by: Tank on May 15, 2011, 02:16:48 PM

Title: For the punctilious among us!
Post by: Tank on May 15, 2011, 02:16:48 PM
New Calculations on Blackbody Energy Set the Stage for Clocks With Unprecedented Accuracy (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162528.htm)

QuoteScienceDaily (May 14, 2011) — A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. Although small, the correction could represent a big step towards atomic timekeepers' longstanding goal of a clock with a precision equivalent to one second of error every 32 billion years -- longer than the age of the universe.

My bold!
Title: Re: For the punctilious among us!
Post by: The Magic Pudding on May 15, 2011, 02:44:32 PM
I bet you're glad you didn't rush into buying one of those dodgy current generation atomic clocks.
Title: Re: For the punctilious among us!
Post by: Tank on May 15, 2011, 02:51:42 PM
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on May 15, 2011, 02:44:32 PM
I bet you're glad you didn't rush into buying one of those dodgy current generation atomic clocks.
Damn right!