The first ticking 'nuclear clocks' are here

(scientificamerican.com)

9 points | by speckx 13 hours ago ago

1 comments

  • montjoy 10 hours ago ago

    > clocks are less sensitive to environmental perturbations and can function without extreme cooling. This “opens a possible route to compact and robust optical clocks”

    > drifting over the course of a day by only the equivalent of around one second in three million years

    If these can be made reasonably cheap, even with a much higher drift rate, I, for one, would welcome the replacement of quartz-based clocks and their tendency to drift wildly in datacenters.