A test using atomic clocks will watch superpositions ride Earth’s curved space-time and see if Einstein can play nice with ...

The Colorado team observed time dilation across an atomic clock stacked only a single millimeter high, thus blowing the old record away.. Background: The way the team accomplished such a feat was ...

The nodes in a quantum network don’t necessarily have to be computers; they can also be atomic clocks. The cesium atoms that ...

If, like me, you can't go a day without making sure your watch is synced to the second, you'll be delighted to learn that a ...

These clocks are moving at different velocities because of their position on the Earth’s surface, and relativity makes precise predictions about the extent of time dilation they experience.

Jun Ye, a JILA and NIST fellow, led a successful experiment that attempted to measure a general relativity effect called time dilation using an extremely precise atomic clock. The more precise ...

Feb. 16, 2022 — Physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever. ­­ Their instrument, known as an optical lattice atomic clock, can measure differences in time to a ...

However, researchers estimate the quantum time dilation could be measured by the world's most precise atomic clocks. If so, the effect could be used to test a variety of theories related to ...

By comparing atomic clocks on satellites and planes to those on the ground, scientists have been able to measure time dilation over distances of up to thousands of kilometers.

Atomic clocks in France, Germany and the UK have been used to perform the best-ever confirmation of time dilation as set out in Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The clocks have been connected ...