At 05:46 PM 3/15/2009, Thomas A. Frank wrote... >14 March 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy >ATOMIC clocks, currently the size of fridges,
A 40 year old HP 5060A is smaller than a small refrigerator. I challenge Anil to tell us what fridge he's thinking of which is the size of an Efratom FRS. (Although you could easily make one using a peltier cooler, that's clearly not what he meant to imply.) The article and headline hype a reduction in size, but there's no detail about that, just that it "could be used in space-based experiments," and we already have atomic clocks in space. What "magazine" was this from? (Anil obviously missed the real significance, which is a potential increase in accuracy, not a decrease in size) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
