It is Memorial Day, Quick Wavers. This vacation, we convey you a meditation on time … and clocks. There are a whole lot of atomic clocks in orbit proper now, perched on satellites throughout Earth. We rely on them for GPS location, Web timing, inventory buying and selling and even house navigation.
In as we speak’s encore episode, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber learn to construct a greater clock. To be able to do this, they ask: How do atomic clocks actually work, anyway? What makes a clock exact? And the way might that course of be improved for even higher accuracy?
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This episode was produced by Hannah Chinn. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez. Tyler Jones checked the information. Jimmy Keeley was the audio engineer.
