Re: Question about Cesium-133 and time keeping.

From: "srp" <srp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:04:03 GMT

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> Read "malfunctions when clock is moved". NOT that time duration alters.

Nothing to do with time duration.

It malfunctions because the frequency variation causes the cesium atoms
to miss the very precisely aligned reference target detector.

Ref: "Physics", Halliday & Resnick, John Wiley & Sons, 1967
page 8

André Michaud

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