Re: A silly fact about an atomic clock that relativist never want you to know.

Sue... wrote:
On Jul 13, 11:27 pm, "Spaceman" <space...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You see, the basic atomic clock actually has to use gravity
to get it's most accurate reading.
They actually have a "fountain" almost like a water fountain
only it is forcing a very tiny ball or atoms upward and it has to use
gravity to return down and be counted as one second.

If you actually take the silly thing and flip it upside down,
It is as good as any pendulum clock of yesteryear.
It simply won't work right.
Isn't that funny?
Want to read about it also.

http://tf.nist.gov/cesium/fountain.htm

Do the cesium clocks on the GPS satellite
vehicles use a fountain?

Not sure and probably not the same,
but something in the same sort of form must be going on.
and cesium atoms are not immune to gravitational
effects so fountain or not, the atom will still be subject
to g forces.
Unless cesium is immune to g-forces like some
special alien spaceship would be.
:)


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James M Driscoll Jr
Spaceman


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