Clocks

[arcticpenguin]

The next generation of atomic clocks will be so accurate they should still be within a second of the corect time when the world ends billions of years from now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2767491.stm

I thought this paragraph was a bit much:
Super-accurate clock technology could also find a use in biology as scientists try to follow processes inside human cells, watching and timing genes as they switch on and off, which will give new insights into diseases like cancer.

I doubt there's anything relevant in biology that happens too fast for the current generation of clocks.

 

[Soapy Sam]

-"The next generation of atomic clocks will be so accurate they should still be within a second of the corect time when the world ends billions of years from now."



On the contrary, I confidently predict none of them will still be in operation more than ten years from now. (They will have been replaced by the NEXT generation of superfluously accurate clocks)

We won't be happy till we prove that the UNIVERSE is running slow.

 

[espritch]

We won't be happy till we prove that the UNIVERSE is running slow.

 

[bjornart]

The universe will be adjusted a pico second forward next week to get it into sync with the Universal clock at the Greenwich Orbital Universal Timekeeper (GOUT) station, scientists said Monday. "The universe has been slowing down lately," says chief scientists James Iffy at GOUT, "and frankly it's wreaking hell with our current theories of physics." The adjustment will mean none of the current theories will need to be scrapped. Further adjustment is expected to be needed in a million years time. "We'll be ready," says Engineer John It, who'll be doing the actual adjustment on Wednesday next week, "it's really not that hard a job when you know how to do it."

 

[Blue Monk]

We won't be happy till we prove that the UNIVERSE is running slow.

What do you mean 'did I wind the universe?' I though YOU were supposed to wind the universe.

 

[kedo1981]

It’s because the universe always uses triple a “AAA” batteries; dam things are always a pain in the ass to find and way over priced. And when they start to run down what does God do; “it”; takes the batteries out of the only universal remote that hasn’t been lost into the closest freak-en black hole; JEESSH

 

[Underemployed]

I doubt there's anything relevant in biology that happens too fast for the current generation of clocks.

It's not our clocks that are too slow. It's our camera shutter speeds.

And yes, the universe does run slow. Particularly on Friday afternoons.