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The Race to Build the World’s Most Precise Clock
Barrett’s clock, located at the university’s Centre for Quantum Technologies, is intended to slice time into more segments.
10 Sep 2019, 06:16 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The most important part of one of the most precise clocks in the world is a paper-thin, staple-size piece of lutetium. It rests inside a soundproof, vibration-proof, mini-fridge-size box, which sits atop a $22,000 motion-dampening table. Murray Barrett, associate professor of physics at the National University of Singapore, reaches for the case to show me. “It should be OK,” he says in his warm New Zealand...
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