Source: projectavalon.net - Thursday, November 29, 2018
In this thread/post I pointed out the new atomic clocks being made available commercially (even in kit form) for those in industry, military, general physics classes and experimenters.. https://ift.tt/2DR2vAi Here is another article - https://ift.tt/2Qp4xyo Every atom has a consistent vibrational frequency, which allows physicists the opportunity to measure how the ytterbium atoms transition between two energy levels -- This new atomic clock uses an optical lattice composed of laser beams trapping ytterbium atoms. The vibrational frequency will change under different gravity conditions, even the slightest amount of gravity change will show up with this system. Bringing a large mass near the device will create a change also, as the mass creates in essence a "gravity well". An image of the test/demo platform: Most certainly not quite small enough to be put into a microchip module. The significance is that this type of time-keeping technology remains stable - in fact 1 x 10 -18 seconds is the deviation wobble over time. (that's pretty darn stable !) The chip sized MicroSemi clock has an accuracy is 0.011 billionths of a second - or 11 x 10 -12 . The MicroSemi chip assembled as a gradiometer would be quite accurate for normal "gravity anomaly" search use. The ytterbium atom clock would be great for picking up space-time ripple bow-waves coming in from across the universe.
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In this thread/post I pointed out the new atomic clocks being made available commercially (even in kit form) for those in industry, military, general physics classes and experimenters.. https://ift.tt/2DR2vAi Here is another article - https://ift.tt/2Qp4xyo Every atom has a consistent vibrational frequency, which allows physicists the opportunity to measure how the ytterbium atoms transition between two energy levels -- This new atomic clock uses an optical lattice composed of laser beams trapping ytterbium atoms. The vibrational frequency will change under different gravity conditions, even the slightest amount of gravity change will show up with this system. Bringing a large mass near the device will create a change also, as the mass creates in essence a "gravity well". An image of the test/demo platform: Most certainly not quite small enough to be put into a microchip module. The significance is that this type of time-keeping technology remains stable - in fact 1 x 10 -18 seconds is the deviation wobble over time. (that's pretty darn stable !) The chip sized MicroSemi clock has an accuracy is 0.011 billionths of a second - or 11 x 10 -12 . The MicroSemi chip assembled as a gradiometer would be quite accurate for normal "gravity anomaly" search use. The ytterbium atom clock would be great for picking up space-time ripple bow-waves coming in from across the universe.
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