2 points | by oofbey 11 hours ago
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Two teams have independently gotten a new kind of ultra precise clock working based on isomers of the thorium 229 nucleus. Currently not as accurate as atomic clocks but they have the potential to redefine the metric second.
Two teams have independently gotten a new kind of ultra precise clock working based on isomers of the thorium 229 nucleus. Currently not as accurate as atomic clocks but they have the potential to redefine the metric second.