Doomsday Clock, Atomic Scientists
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Is the Doomsday Clock the most important design of our time?
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The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.
The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.
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These atomic clocks wouldn’t lose a second in 13.8 billion years
The most precise clocks ever built are now testing Einstein, hunting dark matter, and reshaping how we define time itself. In A Nutshell The world’s most precise clocks are changing how we understand time itself: Unprecedented precision: The best optical atomic clocks wouldn’t drift by more than a second over the entire 13.
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the basis for the definition of a second. Now, a new ...
For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could change the definition of the base unit second in the International System of Units (SI).