A standard atomic clock takes a beam of atoms that are in two states and uses a magnetic field to remove ... in the case of cesium — the number of atoms changing state will be at a maximum ...
Maybe that’s even more than half of the fun. [CuriousMarc] got an HP 5061A Cesium clock, a somewhat famous instrument as the model that attempted to prove the theory of relativity. The reason?
A team of Chinese researchers has reportedly developed the most precise portable atomic clock ever. Small and rigid by design ...