{"id":117624,"date":"2020-12-25T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mits-quantum-entangled-atomic-clock-could-still-be-ticking-after-billions-of-years"},"modified":"2020-12-25T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:22:52","slug":"mits-quantum-entangled-atomic-clock-could-still-be-ticking-after-billions-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mits-quantum-entangled-atomic-clock-could-still-be-ticking-after-billions-of-years","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s quantum entangled atomic clock could still be ticking after billions of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-quantum-entangled-atomic-clock-could-still-be-ticking-after-billions-of-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famous medieval poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote that \u201c\u2018time and tide wait for no man,\u201d and that certainly rings true whether you\u2019ve still got a \u201990s Swatch watch strapped to your wrist, your name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/watch-back-to-the-future-franchise-rap-up\" target=\"_blank\">Doc Brown<\/a>, or you\u2019re a brilliant scientist working on the latest atomic clock design \u2014 which employs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/scientists-make-like-mighty-thor-with-lightning-luring-lasers\">lasers<\/a> to trap and measure oscillations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/explaining-the-almost-real-quantum-science-of-ant-man-and-the-wasp\">quantum entangled atoms<\/a> to maintain precise timekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>The official time for the United States is set at the atomic clock located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, where this Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock remains accurate to within one second every 300 million years. Its cesium-133 atom vibrates exactly 9, 192, 631, 770 times per second, a permanent statistic that has officially measured one second since the machine\u2019s inception and operational rollout back in 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous medieval poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote that \u201c\u2018time and tide wait for no man,\u201d and that certainly rings true whether you\u2019ve still got a \u201990s Swatch watch strapped to your wrist, your name is Doc Brown, or you\u2019re a brilliant scientist working on the latest atomic clock design \u2014 which employs lasers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}