Clockmakers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a more accurate atomic clock, one based on strontium, that ticks 430 trillion times per second. This new clock is 40000 times more accurate than the current-gen cesium clocks which lose a totally unacceptable 1 second in 20 million years.
Good work – but what the world needs right now are more and better atomic clock jokes.
Strontium Atomic Clock Demonstrates Super-Fine Ticks – JILA News Release, Nov 30 2006
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430 trillion times per second is all well and good, but how well does the snooze button work?
They could’ve solved the problem by having a 1-second Daylight Savings Time once every 20 million years.