By designing a blueprint for a nuclear clock, Georgia Tech researchers think they’ve found a better way to measure time.
Atomic clocks are the most precise clocks now in use. But researchers say atomic clocks fall out of sync with each other, even if it’s by four seconds over 14 billion years. Nuclear clocks, on the other hand, would get out of sync by a fraction of that.
So why is being more precise important?
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