Post by DavidHernandez on Dec 22, 2004 14:13:55 GMT -5
Today at CNN.com, the following article discusses the new sugar-cube sized atomic clock.
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/14/atomic.clock/index.html
They're inexpensive (about $100), will fit in a wrist watch, and are accurate to 1 second every three hundred years.
The way I see it, if one of these was put into an automatic watch as a regulator, you could have a perfectly smooth sweeping hand (because the pulse in an atomic clock is about 9.2 BILLION pulses per second). I'm thinking that the Automatic winder would recharge the cell that keeps the atomic "heart" beating.
Awesome.
So, when is Invicta going to make an Automatic Speedway with one of these bad-boys in it...?
Dave.
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/14/atomic.clock/index.html
They're inexpensive (about $100), will fit in a wrist watch, and are accurate to 1 second every three hundred years.
The way I see it, if one of these was put into an automatic watch as a regulator, you could have a perfectly smooth sweeping hand (because the pulse in an atomic clock is about 9.2 BILLION pulses per second). I'm thinking that the Automatic winder would recharge the cell that keeps the atomic "heart" beating.
Awesome.
So, when is Invicta going to make an Automatic Speedway with one of these bad-boys in it...?
Dave.
