New Time like the present... <atomic clocks>

[Cyberman]

Right so like I was doing some light reading (for me anyways no more books on philosophy before I sleep anymore, Karl Marx gave me bad dreams), and found this article on new Atomic clocks for timeing standards. Very interesting techiques for clocks timeing! 430thz a fast enough clock?! That is sub pico second (well 2325.581 femento seconds to be precise.. <COUGH>), very very very fast oscilator in other words.

Well anyhow I found it fascinating at least!

Cyb (ARGH what you don't like Strontium super cooled atoms in a laser latice! Try yerself a single Mercury atom!)

 

[yegosimo]

..uh?

 

[A.I.]

As amazing as this new technology is you sure can't beat an old Casio watch for originality!

Oh, yeah. I only managed to get through the first paragraph. I think I left my Doctors Degree in a parallel universe!

 

[WhiteX]

Cyb, we don´t understand half of it, wii are stupid.

PS: If Karl Marx gave you bad dreams, try Kierkgaard.

 

[EmuFan]

Kierkgaard? I know who that is, he´s norwegian. Kirkegaard. And you know what Kirkegaard or Kirkegård means? Cemetery! Ha! Anyway, i didn´t understand a flying crap, but i´m exhausted, so i might understand it better after a rest...And a Doctors Degree, lol.

 

[Miretank]

The result was a 430-THz time base—40,000 times faster than the current 9.19-GHz cesium-based atomic clocks.

That's fast!

 

[Cyberman]

Right so ...

Ok so you aren't all very technically minded.. (cough cough).

Description of our current standard clock used throughout the world.

Here is an explanation of the single Mercury ion proposed standard
A very detailed explanation of the above.


Here is the exciting explanation of the proposed Strontium clock standard.

Just think you can get absolute zero with lasers.

Cyb

 

[Miretank]

Just think you can get absolute zero with lasers.

I would freeze to death my ex.

 

[BlueFalcon7]

I find it ironic that the "second" has gotten more precise, yet it is still not perfectly accurate. How do they know that its perfectly accurate? Chances are, within that 400 million year period, earth is going to be knocked out of spin by some earthquake or something altering the time that a second really is.

 

[Cyberman]

400 million years is so long the equipement is likely to die long before that.. I think that is the real thing they were noting.

Cyb