{"id":79109,"date":"2018-05-26T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/forgotten-element-could-redefine-time"},"modified":"2018-05-26T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:05:51","slug":"forgotten-element-could-redefine-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/forgotten-element-could-redefine-time","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Element Could Redefine Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forgotten-element-could-redefine-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot can happen in a second; you could meet a stranger, snap your fingers, fall in love, fall asleep, sneeze. But what is a second, really \u2014 and is it as precise as we think it is?<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the most-precise clocks used to tell global time have an error of about 1 second every 300 million years \u2014 so a clock that started ticking in the time of the dinosaurs wouldn\u2019t be off by even a second today. But scientists think we can do better. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34052-unsolved-mysteries-physics.html\">The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>So, they are looking to lutetium, a neglected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/38425-lutetium.html\">rare-earth element<\/a> that has been gathering dust at the bottom of the periodic table, according to a new study published April 25 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-04079-x\">Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62631-atomic-clock-lutetium-precise-time.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62631-atomic-clock-lutetium-precise-time.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot can happen in a second; you could meet a stranger, snap your fingers, fall in love, fall asleep, sneeze. But what is a second, really \u2014 and is it as precise as we think it is? Right now, the most-precise clocks used to tell global time have an error of about 1 second [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}