Talk about being perfectly in-sync with everything around you and maintaining appointments with extraordinary precision. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science have developed an atomic clock that corrects any time errors on its own. The new clock, dubbed KRISS-1, can measure and correct the errors for itself. The clock is one of only around a dozen in the world which is out by one second once every 300,000 years!
Those following this piece for time cannot really complain about how their watch was fast or slow by a few minutes and if you ask me, that is more of a disadvantage than a good thing for someone who is as constantly late as me! The institute had help from overseas for the corrections as it did not know by how much an atomic clock errs and they integrated their own knowledge with the existing work to produce this piece of perfection.
The cesium atomic clock defines one second as the duration of 9,192,631,770 resonance frequency cycles of the cesium atom. But discrepancies occur due to the earth’s magnetic field, temperature and gravity. Minutely accurate standard time is the basis for science, Internet commerce and the global positioning system (GPS). It is highly unlikely that such high-precision technology will anytime soon filter its way down to public domain (and boy am I glad about that!), but next time you need to know the exact time you at least know whom to call.
Via: fareastgizmos
