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  2. Rubidium standard - Wikipedia

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    Commercial rubidium clocks are less accurate than caesium atomic clocks, which serve as primary frequency standards, so a rubidium clock is usually used as a secondary frequency standard. Commercial rubidium frequency standards operate by disciplining a crystal oscillator to the rubidium hyperfine transition of 6.8 GHz (6 834 682 610.904 Hz).

  3. Atomic clock - Wikipedia

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    Simplified block diagram of typical commercial cesium beam frequency reference NIST physicists Steve Jefferts (foreground) and Tom Heavner with the NIST-F2 caesium fountain atomic clock, a civilian time standard for the United States The master atomic clock ensemble at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., which provides the time ...

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  5. Caesium standard - Wikipedia

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    The first caesium clock was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK [1] and promoted worldwide by Gernot M. R. Winkler of the United States Naval Observatory. Caesium atomic clocks are one of the most accurate time and frequency standards, and serve as the primary standard for the definition of the second in ...

  6. 'Sleepwalking into nuclear disaster': The 'Doomsday Clock ...

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    The clock looks only at things humanity could do to itself. A meteor hurtling toward Earth wouldn't count; tinkering with viruses to make them more dangerous would. From the 1950s through the ...

  7. Today (American TV program) - Wikipedia

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    Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie

  8. How close is humanity to self-destruction? Doomsday Clock ...

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    The time on the symbolic clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as in 2023. Prior to that it had stood at 100 seconds to midnight, closer to destruction than at any point since it was ...

  9. List of atomic clocks - Wikipedia

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    18 cesium atomic clocks and 4 hydrogen maser clocks ... National Standard Time and Frequency Laboratory; ... Space Optical Clock breadboard (Sr lattice clock) [29]