10 Atomic Clocks Connected Across 6 Countries In Most Ambitious Timekeeping Experiment Ever

Study Finds ^ | June 13, 2025 | Rachel Godun and Helen Margolis (National Physical Laboratory, UK)

[FLNittany]

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

[AceMineral]

The Clock Of The Long Now

[TangoLimaSierra]

What’s wrong with one Mississippi...two Mississippi...

[rdcbn1]

We are now at 9.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000017 minutes on the dooms day clock. Talk about precision.

[Ezekiel]

Time, you're not fooling me
You're something I can't kill
You're flying like a mighty wind
You're never standing still

Willie Nelson - Come On Time

Isn't it about time? Repeat after me: "4D"

July 3rd marks 40 years:

Release date -- July 3, 1985

I can't help but be reminded of a verse:

Matthew 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

It's those gull-wing doors, I tell ya.

M
4D
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M

M

The Hebrew letter that matches the Latin M is a mem, = 40

Mem (מ) is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Numerical value: 40
Sound: "M"
Meaning: 1. Water 2. Moshiach

Mem

40 (base 16) = 77 decimal, and "mem" is for mazel [מזל], which = 77

Lucky!

[GaltAdonis]

How and when can I place my order for an atomic alarm clock?

[Red Badger]

The NEW Delorean.................

[frank ballenger]

After a fortune on scientific instruments and staffing:
Our conclusion is “time flies” (tempus fugit)

Reference to line 284 of Book 3 of Virgil’s Georgics—
— fugit irreparabile tempus: “it escapes, irretrievable time”.

“It takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.”
Timex watch ads in the 1960s.

[frank ballenger]

Photo....

After the picture you drove it back home to your driveway for the servants to give it a good washing.

[voicereason]

Interesting. I used to operate the time standard in the military using the Loran signal initially, then we got a Cesium clock. So topics like this are interesting. It’s one of the reasons I became interested in watches. One of my favorites is a dead-beat seconds watch that ticks perfectly on the second markers.

[Macoozie]

But time is relative, to position, speed, and a bunch of other things.
So any “accurate” time check is only accurate within that framework.
Planes at height and speed keep different “time” from their watchers on the ground.

Groovy discussion, but it really doesn’t matter much.
If it makes y’all happy, so be it

[Tell It Right]

I was wondering if this experiment would help Eratosthenes calculate the circumference of the earth on the next eclipse.

[mykroar]

Does anybody really care?

[SunkenCiv]

Cue the Vaughn Brothers.

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[telescope115]

GREAT POST, LOL!

One slight problem I can see- it’s been proven that gravity affects time. Atomic clocks on Earth run slower than atomic clocks in Earth orbit. NOT BY MUCH, but enough to make a difference in their experiments. Clocks on Earth run slower.

[Fledermaus]

Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking, into the future

[telescope115]

It’s the Minister of Silly Walks clock….(From Monty Python)

[Fledermaus]

It’s just a jump to the left. And a step to the right. Put your hands on your hips...

[SuperLuminal]

Whatever the stated purpose or intention of this experiment, the final results will, somehow, be used as another factor in controlling every aspect of the peasants’ lives...

[Ezekiel]

Gotta hand it to the original time machine, which debuted on 11 Cheshvan, Jewish Mother's Day.

85 decimal is 55 hex.

It's always something. This started out a little slow, but then the really good stuff popped out back in the beginning:

Chronology
Predecessor DMC DeLorean (spiritual)

The Alpha5 was revealed on May 29, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Alpha5

Sunday, May 29, 2022 --

28 Iyar, 5782

Jerusalem Liberated (1967)

The day is marked in Israel as “Jerusalem Day.”

https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=05%2F29%2F2022

1967 - 2022 =

55 years

Α
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
U+0391, dec. 913

The first capital letter of the Greek alphabet is coded as

913 (base 10), like sum of the first word of the Torah, "in the beginning":

בראשית

= 913

It's like I mentioned earlier about the circus -- "The Greatest Show on Earth" starred Moses as the circus manager:

"Brad Braden is the no-nonsense general manager of the world's largest railroad circus. The show's board of directors want a short 10-week season rather than risk losing money in a postwar economy. Brad bargains to keep the circus on the road as long as it is profitable, thus keeping the 1,400 performers and staff employed."

In the circus narrative, here's Moses' name in Hebrew: בראד בראדן

See how the first name repeats in the last name.

They both begin with "ברא"

Funny thing, innit? The same thing happens in the beginning in the Torah with those same letters:

בּרא*שׁית *בּרא* אלהים את השּׁמים ואת הארץ׃*

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Sure, okay, Moses wrote the Torah and perhaps Cecil B. DeMille was as wicked smaht as Mel Brooks so he meant to do that. That's the ticket.

What good is an inside joke if nobody knows it? What did Moses know?

Did they know about the bread and the hail in Moses' circus name as well?

Riight. These were serious people, not the type to clown around.

Besides, it's all in the timing. Just ask a comedian.

It makes plain sense to ask the one who got trapped in Groundhog Day:

What kind of clown are you?