6/23/2026 at 6:04:02 PM
> clocks are less sensitive to environmental perturbations and can function without extreme cooling. This “opens a possible route to compact and robust optical clocks”> drifting over the course of a day by only the equivalent of around one second in three million years
If these can be made reasonably cheap, even with a much higher drift rate, I, for one, would welcome the replacement of quartz-based clocks and their tendency to drift wildly in datacenters.
by montjoy