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Japan makes clocks which will keep time for 16 billion years
“Cryogenic optical lattice clocks” are not pretty — they look more like giant stripped-down desktop computers than ordinary wall clocks — but they are so precise that current technology cannot even measure them. The research team led by Hidetoshi Katori, a professor at the University of Tokyo, believes it has taken the technology way beyond the atomic clocks that are currently used to define the “second”.
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Kinda overkill no?
I know.. will the earth even exist by then?
So very true...They should send one to Mars just for grins and giggles.