With this clock you’ll never be late – Het Nieuwsblad

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Scientists have built a new, most precise atomic clock in the world, as can be read in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications. The watch can vary but the fifteen billion years, or longer than the estimated age of the universe, a second.

         

The precision has tripled since the previous record which was also developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new atomic clock is fifty percent more stable.

Such precision is also the everyday life for the better, for example for satellite navigation such as GPS.