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    Precise Atomic Clock Invented Time is an adventure that humans seem to be preoccupied in for everything from when we get up in the morning, when we go to work and when we go to bed, but if you compared all the clocks and watches of the world, there’s a new atomic clock out that is so accurate that it will only lose one tiny second in a timeframe of 15 billion years! Apple may have invented its new Apple Watch, but this new optical lattice clock, or it is also being called the strontium atomic clock

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    Jadis Chavez-Storrs Professor Myers English 1A 26 February 2017 Seconds to Midnight on the Doomsday Clock The Atomic bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, brought WWII to a significant end. During WWII, the United States and Soviet Union served as allies against the Axis Powers. Though this wasn’t the only alliance standing against Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria; The United States’ and USSR’s relationship at this point in history

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    timely. Well, those clocks on phones are controlled by the atomic clock administered by the National Institute Standards and Technology, NIST. Before mechanical clocks were invented, using “celestial bodies and sundials” were the accepted forms of timekeeping (Catwright). After the suggestion of a possible creation of a clock by physicist Isidor Rabi using his “resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei” in 1945, NIST creates the first atomic clock based on Rabi’s method

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    Nt1310 Unit 2 Check Time

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    looking at the watch rounding your wrist or looking at the clock put on the wall in front of you or simply take out your mobile from your pocket to check it, at any time given you can update your timing to be accurate, but we are all sure this wasn’t the case six thousand years ago. It all started as water containers filled with water as the shape of an open cone. When water is emptied it means that 12 hours has

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    can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the

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    A seventh grade boy was staring at the clock, waiting until the minute hand reached the 5. He had finished all his work and was waiting for the class to end. Then, he thought to himself, why does a clock have 12 hours? Why do days have 24 hours? Questions started to flood his mind. So, he did some research and lots of history and science answered his question. Timekeeping goes way back to ancient civilizations, from finding the length of a second, naming time lengths, and using the number 60 to divide

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    The Tick in the Clock New technology often begins with the clear intention of solving an ongoing problem or satisfying a societal need. Many times, this new piece of technology is simple, such as the toothpick. Other times, a new technology can be a thing of great complexity, such as a computer hard drive or Facebook. One piece of technology in particular has changed the way human society has functioned over the past few centuries. Everyone strives to keep track of time, as more and more technologies

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    More involved water clocks were developed between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Not much happened during the Middle Ages with greater advancements in timekeeping only appearing in Europe from 14th Century. According to “A Walk Through Time..” larger mechanical clocks started to appear in the larger cities during this time and often were the center of town. In the years to follow, the pendulum clock, the quartz clock, the atomic clock and more sprung onto the world stage. In the latter

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    Watches In The Military

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    sundial as a primitive form of today’s smart watch. Train conductors have utilized pocket watches to maintain a tight and precise schedule due to their accurate time keeping. Watches in the military have components such as tachometers, barometers, and atomic timekeepers that aid in more than just timekeeping. Wall Street uses watches to coordinate trades and exchanges in stock. Watches are depended upon all over the world without being thought of as much. When a wristwatch is used every day continually

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    on this clock. Although this clock seems to be melting like the others in the picture, the fly plays an important part in this painting. Being the painting is named, The Persistence of Memory, the fly leads the onlooker to think these memories might not be as old as the rest. Flies are drawn to items that are rotting but still have some nutritional value; this clock is fresh enough to have more value than the other clocks around it, giving the spectator the thought that maybe while the clock is a memory

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