Sunday, 5 October 2014

Caesium: A brief history of timekeeping

Caesium: A brief history of timekeeping


Caesium is the chemical element that has literally redefined time. All your life you'll have been told the importance of being on time. Well, thanks to caesium the entire world now keeps time so accurately that it has forced us to reconsider what time really is. It has also introduced a bizarre bug into timekeeping.

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