Scientists working on accurate atomic clock with size of the rubik’s cube

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Scientists of the American university MIT and from Draper Laboratory are working on an atomic clock with potential, the size of a rubik’s cube. The researchers want the traditional atomic clock reduce by not seconds, but ten milliseconds at a time to measure.

The atomic clock will not be as long-lasting accurate as the big atomic clocks globally accurate time, but it will, according to them, almost as precisely as the clocks that are in use in, for example, gps satellites. In addition, it should be possible for the atomic clock to carry in a backpack.

That requires that the clock can withstand hard wear. Like many atomic clocks the smaller clock works by radio waves, by cesiumatomen to lead. The researchers want the clock smaller by the atoms is not a foot in the air to shoot up to a second to measure, but much less high to shoot up to 10 milliseconds to measure. That measure, the scientists then with a laser beam.

According to the researchers, the atomic clock ‘a day or a week’ stable and that would be especially useful for applications where it is not possible to have an atomic clock to synchronize, such as under water. The atomic clock is still not ready.

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