In message <4b83a33c.1010...@smiffytech.com>, Matthew Smith writes: >Simple and rather fundamental question: does the common or garden >rubidium oscillator constitute an atomic clock?
Yes. It is classified as a "secondary" atomic clock, because it does not have an intrinsic physical frequency, like the cesium standards, but it is an atomic frequency, and it is an atomic clock (if you attach a display or a pair of hands :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
