Re:For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best...
by rtkwe on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:42PM
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There could be issues with creating accurate copies of this. You could still get very precisely spaced ticks but not get an accurate measure that could be replicated around the world. A standard doesn’t work well if there’s one extant copy you can compare against. That’s why they’re working so hard to create a new standard kilogram where it could in theory be replicated without reference to the original.
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Re:For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best...
by zinekeller on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:52PM
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> That’s why they’re working so hard to create a new standard kilogram
That's done, for now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
Re:For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best...
by jimmySixDOF on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:07PM
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Ironically in terms of this conversation, the new definition of a Kg requires a time measurement.
>The kilogram is the mass of a body at rest whose equivalent energy equals the energy of a collection of photons whose frequencies sum to [1.356392489652×1050] hertz.
Re:For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best...
by adrian_b on Saturday August 21, 2021 @04:42AM
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Now the units for almost all physical quantities (the few exceptions are those that are not dependent on time, length or force, e.g. angles and amount of substance) are derived from the unit of frequency.
The frequency of an atomic clock with cesium has a conventional value, and the units for the other physical quantities, e.g. length, force, voltage, electrical current, temperature and so on are derived from the unit of frequency by conversion factors that are functions of various universal constants, all of which have conventional values chosen so that the units derived in this way are approximately equal with the units that have been used in the past.