Interbane wrote:This is ridiculous. What omniscient standard of time do these scientists have that they could use to compare such a clock to? Is there a mathematical formula that takes the precise length of a day and chops it up? How do we know with that level of precision what a 'second' is? I would think that if we made a clock as accurate as the one described above, then that clock itself should serve as the new standard.The clock, described this week in the journal Nature, is so precise that it would neither lose nor gain one second in about 5 billion years of continuous operation.
How dare you question the omniscience of science.