{"id":171917,"date":"2023-09-13T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-clocks-could-finally-reveal-dark-matter-study-suggests"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:24:43","slug":"atomic-clocks-could-finally-reveal-dark-matter-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-clocks-could-finally-reveal-dark-matter-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Clocks Could Finally Reveal Dark Matter, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-clocks-could-finally-reveal-dark-matter-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineers-made-an-insanely-precise-clock-that-keeps-time-using-entanglement\">Atomic clocks<\/a> are the most accurate timekeeping instruments we have. A new study proposes a way to use the instruments\u2019 mind-blowing level of precision to detect the tiniest of energy fluctuations, potentially giving scientists a way to observe some types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Dark matter<\/a> continues to prove elusive: though we haven\u2019t observed it directly, we can see its effects on the Universe. Frustratingly, there is nothing in our current models of physics to explain what we see.<\/p>\n<p>Here, researchers from the University of Sussex and the National Physical Laboratory in the UK have suggested using atomic clocks to detect certain low-mass particles theorized to potentially make up this mysterious material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeeping instruments we have. A new study proposes a way to use the instruments\u2019 mind-blowing level of precision to detect the tiniest of energy fluctuations, potentially giving scientists a way to observe some types of dark matter. Dark matter continues to prove elusive: though we haven\u2019t observed it directly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171917","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}