{"id":192299,"date":"2024-07-03T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ultra-precise-atomic-clock-doubles-previous-accuracy-could-detect-dark-matter"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:24:27","slug":"ultra-precise-atomic-clock-doubles-previous-accuracy-could-detect-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ultra-precise-atomic-clock-doubles-previous-accuracy-could-detect-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Precise Atomic Clock Doubles Previous Accuracy, Could Detect Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-precise-atomic-clock-doubles-previous-accuracy-could-detect-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time: It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-universe-could-be-shaped-like-a-bizarre-twisted-funhouse\">bends and warps<\/a>, or seems to speed up or slow down, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-how-einstein-s-general-theory-of-relativity-killed-off-common-sense-physics\">depending on your position<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/some-images-are-so-memorable-they-can-mess-with-your-sense-of-time\">or perception<\/a>. So measuring its passing accurately is one of the most fundamental tasks in physics \u2013 which could help land us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/atomic-clocks-could-finally-reveal-dark-matter-study-suggests\">observe dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, physicists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Delaware have developed the most accurate and precise atomic clock yet, using a \u2018web\u2019 of light to trap and excite a diffuse cloud of cold strontium atoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis clock is so precise that it can detect tiny effects predicted by theories such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">general relativity<\/a>, even at the microscopic scale,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2024\/07\/worlds-most-accurate-and-precise-atomic-clock-pushes-new-frontiers-physics\">says<\/a> Jun Ye, a physicist at the NIST\u2019s Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JILA\">JILA<\/a>) lab at the University of Colorado. \u201cIt\u2019s pushing the boundaries of what\u2019s possible with timekeeping.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: It bends and warps, or seems to speed up or slow down, depending on your position or perception. So measuring its passing accurately is one of the most fundamental tasks in physics \u2013 which could help land us on Mars or even observe dark matter. Now, physicists at the US National Institute of Standards [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192299","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\/192299","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=192299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}