• Thumbnail for Atomic clock
    An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron...
    147 KB (15,742 words) - 03:29, 9 May 2024
  • This is a list of some experimental laboratory atomic clocks worldwide. "Seit wann läuft die erste Atomuhr in der PTB?". Themenrundgänge / Fragen zur...
    14 KB (691 words) - 18:48, 9 February 2024
  • An atomic clock is a time keeping device. Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space science project a clock updated by radio signals which is sometimes called an...
    1 KB (138 words) - 23:02, 30 May 2020
  • Thumbnail for Clock
    quartz clocks and watches. Currently, atomic clocks are the most accurate clocks in existence. They are considerably more accurate than quartz clocks as they...
    96 KB (11,198 words) - 00:41, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Doomsday Clock
    Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
    54 KB (3,647 words) - 17:38, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second
    count seconds accurately were pendulum clocks invented in the 17th century. Starting in the 1950s, atomic clocks became better timekeepers than Earth's...
    34 KB (3,648 words) - 06:47, 19 May 2024
  • Earth's geoid. TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. It is a continuous scale...
    15 KB (1,735 words) - 18:42, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chip-scale atomic clock
    A chip scale atomic clock (CSAC) is a compact, low-power atomic clock fabricated using techniques of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and incorporating...
    7 KB (754 words) - 23:31, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear clock
    frequency, in the same manner as an atomic clock uses the frequency of an electronic transition in an atom's shell. Such a clock is expected to be more accurate...
    42 KB (4,826 words) - 03:14, 14 May 2024
  • mechanical clock. Hence most everyday quartz clocks do not have an adjustable drift correction. Atomic clocks are very precise and have nearly no clock drift...
    8 KB (1,073 words) - 20:05, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rubidium standard
    A rubidium standard or rubidium atomic clock is a frequency standard in which a specified hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium-87 atoms is used...
    3 KB (264 words) - 14:43, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deep Space Atomic Clock
    The Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) was a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock for precise radio navigation in deep space. DSAC was designed...
    10 KB (980 words) - 22:42, 23 January 2024
  • The Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space or PARCS was an atomic-clock mission scheduled to fly on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008, but...
    4 KB (423 words) - 13:55, 12 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
    space-qualified Indian made atomic clocks was initiated, along with a study and development initiative for an all optical atomic clock (ultra stable for IRNSS...
    54 KB (4,433 words) - 15:22, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of timekeeping devices
    practical use today are atomic clocks, which can be accurate to a few billionths of a second per year and are used to calibrate other clocks and timekeeping instruments...
    92 KB (10,789 words) - 07:19, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radio clock
    radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch...
    48 KB (2,959 words) - 02:23, 25 April 2024
  • flew caesium atomic clocks east and west around the Earth in commercial airliners, to compare the elapsed time against that of a clock that remained...
    51 KB (6,567 words) - 09:38, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coordinated Universal Time
    International Atomic Time (TAI) are also used alongside UTC. UTC is based on TAI, which is a weighted average of hundreds of atomic clocks worldwide. UTC...
    52 KB (5,996 words) - 12:47, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caesium standard
    Gernot M. R. Winkler of the United States Naval Observatory. Caesium atomic clocks are one of the most accurate time and frequency standards, and serve...
    21 KB (2,489 words) - 23:25, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hafele–Keating experiment
    caesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world, first eastward, then westward, and compared the clocks in motion...
    20 KB (2,225 words) - 23:06, 8 March 2024
  • Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is a project led by the European Space Agency which will place ultra-stable atomic clocks on the International Space...
    5 KB (480 words) - 15:33, 1 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Quartz clock
    settings atomic clocks had replaced quartz clocks as the basis for precision measurements of time and frequency, resulting in International Atomic Time....
    51 KB (5,420 words) - 01:00, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
    destruction that atomic war could bring about. To convey the particular peril posed by nuclear weapons, the Bulletin devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947, with...
    33 KB (3,434 words) - 10:18, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of watches
    133 Atomic Watch the first watch to keep time with an internal atomic clock. Unlike the radio watches described above, which achieve atomic clock accuracy...
    51 KB (5,910 words) - 00:45, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for NIST-F1
    NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain clock, a type of atomic clock, in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, and serves...
    5 KB (662 words) - 22:26, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for JJY
    JJY (redirect from Japanese Atomic Clock)
    atomic clock in Tokyo. This information is sent to the transmitter stations and is used to set a caesium atomic clock at each station. These clocks are...
    18 KB (1,704 words) - 07:45, 18 May 2024
  • Dick effect (category Atomic clocks)
    limitation to frequency stability for modern atomic clocks such as atomic fountains and optical lattice clocks. It is an aliasing effect: High frequency...
    51 KB (6,977 words) - 14:34, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Experimental testing of time dilation
    cesium-beam atomic clocks were flown around the world and the expected differences were found compared to a stationary clock. The clock hypothesis states...
    22 KB (2,850 words) - 23:04, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Time
    Unveils Chip-Scale Atomic Clock". NIST. 27 August 2004. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011. "New atomic clock can keep time for...
    109 KB (12,906 words) - 16:43, 15 May 2024
  • A quantum clock is a type of atomic clock with laser cooled single ions confined together in an electromagnetic ion trap. Developed in 2010 by physicists...
    13 KB (1,315 words) - 07:01, 6 October 2023