I do believe that there is a place for pure science. Science that expands knowledge and gives us a better insight into how things are and how they work.
Sometimes though I think that there is a case for calling it a day and branching off into something else more productive.
This is one of those things. A new atomic clock accurate to 1 second in 3 billion years.
WTF! How can they be sure, has it been fully tested? What is the benefit of that over the old one, also untested which was half as accurate? I fail to see the benefit over the old cesium clocks, only accurate to 100 Million years, that have been around for a while.
And I’ll bet they are even now looking at the next version.
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Science for Science’s sake
I do believe that there is a place for pure science. Science that expands knowledge and gives us a better insight into how things are and how they work.
Sometimes though I think that there is a case for calling it a day and branching off into something else more productive.
This is one of those things. A new atomic clock accurate to 1 second in 3 billion years.
WTF! How can they be sure, has it been fully tested? What is the benefit of that over the old one, also untested which was half as accurate? I fail to see the benefit over the old cesium clocks, only accurate to 100 Million years, that have been around for a while.
And I’ll bet they are even now looking at the next version.