Read more: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/07/nists-quantum-logic-clock-returns-top-performance
TIL a quantum logic clock at the Univ. of Colorado Boulder is so accurate, it would not lose 1 second in 33 billion years (about 2.5 times the age of the universe)
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How can anyone truly say what time it is when we just made up the time of day to start?
Isn’t that beacuse it literally is the definition of time, if the quantum decayed late it would be the universe that is wrong a second is the time to decay.