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Why timekeeping is now on the verge of a giant leap forward in accuracy

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par Vittorio Aita, Research Associate, Department of Physics, King's College London

Time is vital to the functioning of our everyday lives: from the watches on our wrists to the GPS systems in our phones. Communication systems, power grids, and financial transactions all rely on precision timing. Seconds are the vital units of measurement in timekeeping.

Surprisingly, there is still debate over the definition of the second. But recent advances in the world’s most accurate forms of timekeeping may have just changed the…

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