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Clocks on the cusp of a nuclear age
You need three things to build a clock: an energy source, a resonator, and a counter. In an analog wrist watch, for example, a small battery is the energy source that sends a small electric signal to a quartz crystal, … Continue reading →
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Tagged caesium standard, calcium fluoride, fine structure constant, frequency comb, Indian Standard Time, ISOLDE, lithium strontium hexafluoroaluminate, metastability, nuclear clock, nuclear isomer, nuclear physics, optical atomic clocks, Planck equation, strong interaction parameter, strong nuclear force, thorium-229, thorium-229m, vacuum ultraviolet
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