Can Watches Get MORE Accurate?
Reading through the Googles and happened upon this article talking about time crystals.
Essentially, instead of "forming repeating across three dimensions of space, these ones change in a set pattern over time."
So theoretically, because of this set pattern, they could be used to make clocks & watches even more accurate.
Do you think this discovery will ever make it into such a low tech device like a watch?
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Todd
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I read the article. Or a similar one. It's hard to say if it will make it's way into watches. Or any sort of timekeeping device. The atoms maintain perpetual motion without the input of energy or losing energy. Theoretically it could power a watch. But because they don't exist in physical space, but rather a system, I don't think it can be harnessed into a wearable. Then again, I'm just a simple ape who spends too much money on watches. I don't know crap.
Considering this is stuff of the gaps, that lasts 10 milseconds and requires lasers I don't think there is a practical wrist application. Although if you were giant mecha robot it might work there.
For all practical purposes watches are already just as accurate as they need to be.
Considering this is stuff of the gaps, that lasts 10 milseconds and requires lasers I don't think there is a practical wrist application. Although if you were giant mecha robot it might work there.
You had me at Gundam
For all practical purposes watches are already just as accurate as they need to be.
True. They are also as WR as they need to be & as shock resistant & as anti-reflective & as anti-magnetic...
True. They are also as WR as they need to be & as shock resistant & as anti-reflective & as anti-magnetic...
Yeah I know, the answer was a bit too snarky and I came out as Captain Obvious. What I meant to say is that watches wore by us have reached the balance between performance and price. We won't get more accurate watches because we don't ask for them. Actually so few of us still wear watches that I'll be surprised if in a few decades anyone will still understand what we are talking about.
When has "good enough" or "who needs it" ever stopped us from going even further, technology-wise? As soon as someone has figured out how to make a wristwatch from this, they probably will. I mean we got effin' nixie watches, just because someone thought it'd be cool.
I say no because time is not absolute. Time is different at the top Mt. Everest than it is at sea level. Time in orbit is out so much that if it weren’t corrected to the nanosecond, the global GPS system would be useless within 15 minutes. Even time crystals in space would tell a different time within earth’s gravity well versus in orbit.
Not only that but our measure of time is divisions of earth’s rotation which itself is not absolute. Earth’s rotation can be increased or slowed by earthquakes, etc. which causes added seconds from time to time (pun intended).
I think we have an adequate grasp of time within our own inertial spacetime to fulfill our highest tech needs for the foreseeable future.