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Wounded Bear

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1. Fascinating. I worked in Time & Frequency for 30 years...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Oct 24, 2020, 10:03 PM

Oct 2020

this kind of shit always interests me. I worked on Rubidium based atomic clocks from the late 70's to the early 00's. We even worked on the early development of the GPS system.

Fun times.

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Atomic clocks experience the quantum phenomenon called superposition [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP

Fascinating. I worked in Time & Frequency for 30 years... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #1

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Had to look that up... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #3

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Does Dick Cheney still own a bunch of these clocks? SheltieLover Oct 2020 #5

So if you move a quantum clock undergoing time dilation at 88 mph marylandblue Oct 2020 #7

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The weirdness of quantum leaves me open to the idea that it's all a simulation Ron Obvious Oct 2020 #8

Well since uncertainty is a key quantum principle, you never know... marylandblue Oct 2020 #10