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A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

Research published recently in the journal Nature Communications considers the influence of the quantum mechanics concept of superposition on timekeeping. Superposition refers to the ability of an ...

In a dual set of papers published in Science last week, an international group of researchers presented an experiment which used relativistic time dilation to measure the curvature of spacetime. The ...

As with any theoretical work, the real test comes when it can... well, be tested. The authors use the final section of their paper to discuss possible tests. Click to expand... This is the key why I ...

Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom.