{"id":173048,"date":"2023-09-29T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-clocks-on-the-horizon-unveiling-the-power-of-scandium"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:31:32","slug":"atomic-clocks-on-the-horizon-unveiling-the-power-of-scandium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-clocks-on-the-horizon-unveiling-the-power-of-scandium","title":{"rendered":"Atomic clocks on the horizon: Unveiling the power of scandium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-clocks-on-the-horizon-unveiling-the-power-of-scandium2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team has made a groundbreaking discovery at the European XFEL X-ray laser, bringing us closer to realizing the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/keep-up-time-with-atomic-clocks\" title=\"atomic clocks\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">atomic clocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They achieved this by exciting a highly promising transition in the nucleus of scandium, a readily available element, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desy.de\/news\/news_search\/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=2939&two_columns=0\" title=\"Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) announced\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) announced<\/a>. This unique resonance demands X-rays with an energy of 12.4 kiloelectronvolts (keV), an astonishing 10,000 times the energy of visible light, with a remarkable width of only 1.4 femtoelectronvolts (feV), equivalent to one second in 300 billion years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photon-science.desy.de\/research\/research_teams\/magnetism_and_coherent_phenomena\/contact\/index_eng.html\" title=\"Ralf R\u00f6hlsberger\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Ralf R\u00f6hlsberger<\/a>, a DESY researcher, emphasizes the significance of this achievement: \u201cThis corresponds to one second in 300 billion years.\u201d Such precision would redefine the boundaries of timekeeping accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team has made a groundbreaking discovery at the European XFEL X-ray laser, bringing us closer to realizing the potential of atomic clocks. They achieved this by exciting a highly promising transition in the nucleus of scandium, a readily available element, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) announced. This unique resonance demands X-rays with an energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173048","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=173048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}