atomic clocks
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The Rate of Earth’s Spin Appears to Be Accelerating
The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them unpleasant, but it will also be remembered for being one of the fastest on record, due to our planet’s accelerating rate of spin. Should this trend continue, it could result in an unprecedented “negative leap second.”
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Scientists Use Spinning Neutron Stars To Calibrate Atomic Clocks
The European Space Agency is synching up atomic clocks with distant, rapidly spinning neutron stars, called pulsars, according to a release.
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Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement
With a new, “portable” atomic clock, scientists are measuring not what time it is but changes to time itself.
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A Look Inside The Observatory Where Time Is Ticking
Do you know where time comes from? Well, for all intents and purposes, it comes from one of the wings of the US Naval Observatory, where the nation’s primary atomic clock (and Joe Biden) live. Joe Biden is not the time master, however.