{"id":85231,"date":"2018-11-28T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-enough-to-measure-changes-in-spacetime-itself"},"modified":"2018-11-28T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:44:14","slug":"scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-enough-to-measure-changes-in-spacetime-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-enough-to-measure-changes-in-spacetime-itself","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-enough-to-measure-changes-in-spacetime-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t all experience time passing equally\u2014time passes more slowly closer to something massive\u2019s gravitational pull, as famously theorized by Albert Einstein. And since gravity is typically interpreted as the way mass warps space itself, that means a precise-enough atomic clock could serve as a scientific tool for measuring how objects change the shape of their surrounding space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-enough-to-measu-1830715349\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-build-atomic-clocks-accurate-...1830715349<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to new research. We don\u2019t all experience time passing equally\u2014time passes more slowly closer to something massive\u2019s gravitational pull, as famously theorized by Albert Einstein. And since gravity is typically interpreted as the way mass warps space itself, that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231","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=85231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}