1990 - Splitting the Second

JONES Tony

The Story of Atomic Time.

Did you know .....

  • Atomic clocks tick 9 billion times a second and the best keep time to one second in 10 million years ?
  • 13 Nobel prizewinners have contributed to the physics of atomic timekeeping ?
  • Mean Time remains the legal time for the United Kingdom despite being abandonned for civil timekeeping in 1972 ?
  • etc.....

199 pages

Edition : 2000


Language : english
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