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World’s Most Accurate Clock Could Be a Turning Point for Humanitywww.popularmechanics.com/technology/a62884788/nuclear-clocks/
118 sats \ 1 comment \ @ch0k1 14 Nov science
From sundials that track the sun’s trek across the sky to hourglasses that mark the passage of sand between glass bulbs, humans have long wrestled with how best to measure time. This year, scientists made rapid strides toward constructing humanity’s most accurate timepiece yet: the nuclear clock.
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 14 Nov
Nuclear clocks could upgrade our most advanced, state-of-the-art atomic clocks by a factor of ten, which means they would potentially drop one second every 300 billion years. Compared to the power of optical atomic clocks, which are estimated to drop just one second every 30 billion years, that difference doesn’t seem like it would matter. However, the real-world impacts alone will be huge, including improved earthquake detection and satellite navigation systems. Beyond improving our day-to-day life, these more precise clocks could also help reveal the fundamental workings of our universe.
Sounds cool. I wonder though what kind of real-world impact such small corrections to errors may have... I'm sure there is, just hard to know from the limited information in this paragraph.
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