{"id":88966,"date":"2019-03-27T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-3d-quantum-gas-clock-could-redefine-time"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:05:30","slug":"this-3d-quantum-gas-clock-could-redefine-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-3d-quantum-gas-clock-could-redefine-time","title":{"rendered":"This 3D Quantum Gas Clock Could Redefine Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This 3D Quantum Gas Clock Could Redefine Time\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1JBHG6fipr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time may be a human construct but that hasn\u2019t stopped physicists from perfecting it.<\/p>\n<p>JILA\u2019s 3D Quantum Gas Atomic Clock Offers New Dimensions in Measurement<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2017\/10\/jilas-3-D-quantum-gas-atomic-clock-offers-new-dimensions-measurement\">https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2017\/10\/jilas-3-D-quan\u2026easurement<\/a><br \/> \u201cJILA physicists have created an entirely new design for an atomic clock, in which strontium atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional (3D) cube at 1,000 times the density of previous one-dimensional (1-D) clocks. In doing so, they are the first to harness the ultra-controlled behavior of a so-called \u201cquantum gas\u201d to make a practical measurement device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jun Ye: Let There Be Light (and Thus, Time)<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bbBmkooNse4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> Dr. Jun Ye, professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a fellow of both the National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, explains how lasers are used to manipulate atoms inside and out for ultra-precise clocks.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YdLMlnWXvS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/ultra-accurate-clocks-lead-search-for-new-laws-of-physics-20180416\/\">Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics&#8221; &#8212; Quanta Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/ultra-accurate-clocks-lead-search-for-new-laws-of-physics-20180416\/embed\/#?secret=W8MjBEeidk#?secret=YdLMlnWXvS\" data-secret=\"YdLMlnWXvS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/> Atomic clocks are letting physicists tighten the lasso around elusive phenomena such as dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1UO1PxI\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1UO1PxI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-3d-quantum-gas-clock-could-redefine-time\">Continue reading \u201cThis 3D Quantum Gas Clock Could Redefine Time\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time may be a human construct but that hasn\u2019t stopped physicists from perfecting it. JILA\u2019s 3D Quantum Gas Atomic Clock Offers New Dimensions in Measurement https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2017\/10\/jilas-3-D-quan\u2026easurement \u201cJILA physicists have created an entirely new design for an atomic clock, in which strontium atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional (3D) cube at 1,000 times the density [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88966","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}