{"id":209627,"date":"2025-03-24T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-nuclear-clock-so-precise-it-could-redefine-time-itself"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:06:27","slug":"a-nuclear-clock-so-precise-it-could-redefine-time-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-nuclear-clock-so-precise-it-could-redefine-time-itself","title":{"rendered":"A Nuclear Clock So Precise It Could Redefine Time Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nuclear-clock-so-precise-it-could-redefine-time-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic clocks.<\/p>\n<p>By embedding thorium into a solid-state crystal, they have found a nuclear transition largely resistant to temperature changes, crucial for precision timekeeping. Their work could not only redefine timekeeping but also open doors to detecting new physics.<\/p>\n<p>Pushing Beyond Atomic Clocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic clocks. By embedding thorium into a solid-state crystal, they have found a nuclear transition largely resistant to temperature changes, crucial for precision timekeeping. Their work could not only redefine timekeeping but also open doors to detecting new physics. Pushing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209627","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}