{"id":657288,"date":"2010-02-05T02:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T07:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/worlds-most-precise-clock\/14088\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T02:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T07:27:06","slug":"worlds-most-precise-clock-keeps-time-to-1-second-in-3-7-billion-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657288","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s most precise clock keeps time to 1 second in 3.7 billion years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/atomic-clock.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"NIST postdoctoral researcher James Chin-wen Chou with the world's most precise clock that ...\"><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years. 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