[time-nuts] New Scientist article on Strontium Optical Latice Clock

[Christopher Hoover]

(I'm not sure you will be able to read this article for free.)

 

The most accurate clock of all time:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7397

 

 

Hidetoshi Katori and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have built a
clock based on strontium atoms trapped in an optical lattice.  The resonance
is at 429,228,004,229,952 Hz. 

Katori claims that this clock will keep time with an accuracy of 1 part in
10^18. 

 

-ch