Physicists are quietly rewriting one of the most basic units in science, using a new generation of optical clocks that can keep time so precisely they barely lose a beat over the age of the universe.
A photo of the atomic clock setup complete with the bisecting cavity. Credit: JILA/Ye Group Historically, JILA (a joint institute established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Microchip Technology’s new SkyWire is a time measurement tool embedded in its BlueSky Firewall 2200. It’s designed to measure, align and verify time to within nanoseconds even when clocks are long ...