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The atomic clock’s lynchpin is the electron—to tell time, researchers use a laser to coax the electrons to jump back and forth between two specific energy levels.
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
However, atomic clocks are also vulnerable to sync loss.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
Satellites in these networks carry atomic clocks that resolve time within a few billionths of a second.
—Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
Since the first atomic clock was built in 1949, this process has only gotten more sophisticated.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
However, atomic clocks are also vulnerable to sync loss.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
Satellites in these networks carry atomic clocks that resolve time within a few billionths of a second.
—Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
Since the first atomic clock was built in 1949, this process has only gotten more sophisticated.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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The Yoto also doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, night-light, sleep trainer, room thermometer, and alarm clock.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
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The magician made coins, alarm clocks and even a woman disappear despite battling a 104-degree fever and severe abdominal pain.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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