An atomic strontium clock ticks 430 trillion times per second, tracking time with precision over billions of years and helping scientists study gravity and dark matter.
Today’s state-of-the-art optical clocks offer accuracy to 18 decimal places, which is roughly equivalent to measuring the distance from Earth to the Moon to one-millionth of a millimeter.
In a cafe at CERN in 1992, three physicists realized they disagreed about how many constants are needed to describe all of nature. A recent paper suggests only one – time – is necessary.
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