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What is an atomic clock?
What is a nuclear clock?
Are the fundamental constants of nature really constant?
For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an atom’s nucleus using a laser. The achievement would allow today’s atomic clocks to be replaced with a nuclear clock that would be the most accurate clock to ever exist, allowing advances like deep space navigation and communication. It would also allow scientists to measure precisely whether the fundamental constants of nature are, in fact, really constant or merely appear to be because we have not yet measured them precisely enough.
Read the full story here:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/nuclear-spectroscopy-breakthrough-could-rewrite-fundamental-constants-of-nature
#ucla #nuclear #clock #atomic #physics #astronomy #thorium #laser #experiment
What is an atomic clock?
What is a nuclear clock?
Are the fundamental constants of nature really constant?
For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an atom’s nucleus using a laser. The achievement would allow today’s atomic clocks to be replaced with a nuclear clock that would be the most accurate clock to ever exist, allowing advances like deep space navigation and communication. It would also allow scientists to measure precisely whether the fundamental constants of nature are, in fact, really constant or merely appear to be because we have not yet measured them precisely enough.
Read the full story here:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/nuclear-spectroscopy-breakthrough-could-rewrite-fundamental-constants-of-nature
#ucla #nuclear #clock #atomic #physics #astronomy #thorium #laser #experiment
