Posted on 11/04/2014 6:01:30 AM PST by C19fan
A new record-breaking atomic clock is so precise it neither loses nor gains a second in five billion years - longer than the age of the Earth. The 'strontium lattice clock' is 50% more accurate than the previous record holder, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quantum logic clock. Researchers say the clock is so accurate, it can even reveal the effect gravity has on time.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
GPS also illustrates that the time-dilation effects described in "general" relativity theory actually occur.
Surely in five billion years, the Earth’s rotation will slow or the orbit will alter. If the clock doesn’t lose a second, once the length of the day decays, the clock will be increasingly wrong.
i was quoting an old song
Why don’t we have it Saturday, in the park.
Does it come with a money back guarantee?
Yes, I was also quoting a Chicago song...
OK - let’s meet at 25 or 6 to 4
...that was too easy. :-)
“I was hoping for a Longines.”
Just you and me, right?
Time itself is a pretty fascinating topic as far as I'm concerned. Its nature is not understood at all, or even if it is a 'real' thing, and not just wholly an invention of man.
Sorry, Boss, I’m a trillionth of a second late - please don’t fire me, okay?
According to the folks who built this clock, the answer is "no".
does anybody really care?
Probably not.
An accurate date calculation would have to have a table of leap seconds, their direction and when they were implemented in order to be able to calculate the precise time based on elapsed time from an Epoch date. Like I said, it's a mess.
That would be a hoot!
Sheeesh, that must be the 67th or 68th question from you!
Amazing how the lyrics to Dialogue is so relevant today.
Terry= Constitutional Conservative
Peter= Brainless leftwing kook
Terry: Are you optimistic ‘bout the way that things are going?
Pete: No, I never ever think of it at all.
Terry: Don’t you ever worry when you see what’s going down?
Pete: Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all.
Terry: When it’s time to function as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor
of Arts help you get by?
Pete: I hope to study further, a few more years or so. I also hope to keep a steady high.
Terry: Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?
Pete: What is this power you speak of and the need for things to change? I always thought that ev’rything was fine, ev’rything is fine.
Terry: Don’t you feel repression just closing in around?
Pete: No, the campus here is very very free.
Terry: Does it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Pete: Well I hope the President knows what he’s into, I don’t know. Oooh I just don’t know.
Terry: Don’t you see starvation in the city where you live, all the needless hunger, all the needless pain?
Pete: I haven’t been there lately, the country is so fine,
but my neighbors don’t seem hungry ‘cause they haven’t got the time, Haven’t got the time.
Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind, I was troubled by the shapes of things to come.
Pete: Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb, You’d always think that ev’rything was fine. Ev’ry thing is fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gje_0OMj4h4
V was definitely their best album.
The faster object uses more space (relative distance traveled), but less time.
Gravity does however bend it also. It's gonna be a lot less influence than what they are looking for though.
I agree - but...
“Beginnings” is my favorite Chicago song - only for a personal connection to “the girl next door” who I married and later lost her to breast cancer at 28.
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