{"id":217623,"date":"2024-03-27T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/most-accurate-clock-ever-can-tick-for-40-billion-years-without-error\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:49","slug":"most-accurate-clock-ever-can-tick-for-40-billion-years-without-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/most-accurate-clock-ever-can-tick-for-40-billion-years-without-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Most accurate clock ever can tick for 40 billion years without error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26094943\/SEI_197397435.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2424149 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"NIST\/R. Jacobson\" data-caption=\"An extremely accurate optical clock\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">An extremely accurate optical clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NIST\/R. Jacobson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The most accurate clock in the world will lose less than 1 second every 40 billion years, or around three times the current age of the universe. While we have no direct need for such extreme timekeeping, the clock could help investigations in multiple areas of physics, including detecting dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the clock, built by <a href=\"https:\/\/jila.colorado.edu\/yelabs\/people\/lab-members\">Alexander Aeppli<\/a> at the University of Colorado Boulder and his colleagues, are about\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423804-most-accurate-clock-ever-can-tick-for-40-billion-years-without-error\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] An extremely accurate optical clock NIST\/R. Jacobson The most accurate clock in the world will lose less than 1 second every 40 billion years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333559,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217623\/revisions\/333559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}