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The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
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andor Distinctive time guard, only an atomic watch will do. While the best quartz watches will lose a millimeter again every six weeks, the atomic watch may not lose one thousand in a decade. These devices support everything from GPS and Internet to Trading stock market. This may look good enough for most. But in a recently published paper in natureThe researchers state that they are ready to build its successor: the nuclear clock. This watch can be the best 1000 times best of standard atomic watches today.