-------- In message <[email protected]>, Attila Kinali writes:
>I still would like to try to build my own atomic clock at some point, >even if it would be a quite costly, and a many years project. If you like lasers, build an ion trap. If you only like lasers a little bit, build an optically pumped standard. If you *really* like lasers, build a fountain. If you are more chemically inclined, there are a ton of gasses you can work with, methane, amonia, CO2 etc. The one thing nobody has done or even tried yet, (as far as I know), is optically excite a solid crystal. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | 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 -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
