Tag: atomic clocks

• Straight outta Compton…

  (This was my original title for my article, but my editors evidently didn’t like it. I guess I’m too old school. Ahem. Moving right along.) As you may know, quantum physics shows that matter has both a wavelike and particle-like character. When you combine quantum physics and special relativity, you find that a particle at…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 10, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  atomic clocks, fundamental constants, quantum mechanics