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On December 31 this year, all watches across the planet are okay
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On December 31 this year, all watches across the planet are okay
The world's most accurate atomic clock will only deviate a second for 15 billion years.
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have officially launched the most accurate atomic clock in the world.
According to the journal Science, American scientists have invented the world's most accurate watch with 10 times the accuracy of any watch.
This so-called optical lattice is only 1 second wrong for 300 million years, meaning it is three times more accurate than the current atomic clock.
The watch was created by only one type of atom in the atom that scientists thought was not simpler.
Scientists in China's Hubei province say they have successfully installed the country's first optical meter, allowing for more precise time measurements than tra…