{"id":135739,"date":"2022-02-17T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-atomic-clocks-measure-time-dilation-of-einsteins-general-relativity-at-millimeter-scale"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:22:19","slug":"new-atomic-clocks-measure-time-dilation-of-einsteins-general-relativity-at-millimeter-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-atomic-clocks-measure-time-dilation-of-einsteins-general-relativity-at-millimeter-scale","title":{"rendered":"New Atomic Clocks Measure Time Dilation of Einstein\u2019s General Relativity at Millimeter Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-atomic-clocks-measure-time-dilation-of-einsteins-general-relativity-at-millimeter-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates.<\/p>\n<p>The experiments, described in the February 17, 2022, issue of <em>Nature,<\/em> suggest how to make atomic clocks 50 times more precise than today\u2019s best designs and offer a route to perhaps revealing how relativity and gravity interact with quantum mechanics, a major quandary in physics.<\/p>\n<p>JILA is jointly operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates. The experiments, described in the February 17, 2022, issue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135739","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}