Re: Thorium Nuclear Clocks

2023-06-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
232-->U233) in a heavy water reactor (deuterium) and went Yankee light water. Cheaper, I expect. But, you knew that already -Original Message- From: John Clark To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List Sent: Mon, Jun 5, 2023 2:08 pm Subject: Thorium Nuclear Clocks Existing a

Thorium Nuclear Clocks

2023-06-05 Thread John Clark
Existing atomic clocks are stable to within 1 part in 10^20, if two of them had been synchronized 13.8 billion years ago during the Big Bang today they would disagree with each other by less than 1/100 of a second. But scientists want something better, they want to make a nuclear clock, which works