{"id":164780,"date":"2023-05-30T00:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/german-researchers-take-us-a-step-closer-to-making-nuclear-clocks"},"modified":"2023-05-30T00:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:29:01","slug":"german-researchers-take-us-a-step-closer-to-making-nuclear-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/german-researchers-take-us-a-step-closer-to-making-nuclear-clocks","title":{"rendered":"German researchers take us a step closer to making nuclear clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/german-researchers-take-us-a-step-closer-to-making-nuclear-clocks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clock\u2019s accuracy would be as high as one second for every 300 billion years.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between researchers from various institutes in Germany has brought us a step closer to building the first-ever nuclear clock. In experiments carried out at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the researchers measure the radiative decay of thorium-229 nuclear isomer, the first instance of having achieved this feat and a critical component for building nuclear clocks.<\/p>\n<p>For years atomic clocks have been our standard of accuracy when it comes to clocks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Blackjack3D\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>For years atomic clocks have been our standard of accuracy when it comes to clocks. The best optical atomic clocks have a precision rate of 10<sup>-18<\/sup>, which is equivalent to an inaccuracy of one second every 30 billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock\u2019s accuracy would be as high as one second for every 300 billion years. A collaboration between researchers from various institutes in Germany has brought us a step closer to building the first-ever nuclear clock. In experiments carried out at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the researchers measure the radiative decay of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164780","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}