Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Number of the Week
4 seconds

The amount of time a new ultra-precise optical clock would be out by if it were to measure the 13.7-billion year age of the universe. The clock uses the oscillation of a trapped aluminium-27 atom to measure time and was developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado.

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