"How the U.S. Built the World’s Most Ridiculously..." Topic

… Accurate Atomic Clock.

"Throw out that lame old atomic clock that's only accurate to a few tens of quadrillionths of a second. The U.S. has introduced a new atomic clock that is three times more accurate than previous devices.Atomic clocks are responsible for synchronizing time for much of our civilian technology, including electric power grids, GPS, and the watch on your iPhone. On Apr. 3, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado officially launched their newest standard for measuring time using the NIST-F2 atomic clock, which has been under development for more than a decade."NIST-F2 is accurate to one second in 300 million years," said Thomas O'Brian, who heads NIST's time and frequency division, during a press conference Apr. 3. The clock was recently certified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures as the world's most accurate time standard…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Just the thing to measure the length of a turn!

Grelber

It will only seem like forever…

Maybe we can resolve the Achilles vs the turtle paradox.

We should charge for this stuff

Oh, great! Now every 300 million years we'll have to incorporate a leap-second into our calendars. I guess I'll have to put a reminder in my planner so I don't forget.

Was visiting NIST, and they pointed out that it could measure time so well, that if you raise it by ten inches, that one can measure the change in time due to the change in gravity.

If you don't have the money to spend on frou-frou, what else are you going to do with it?