Nutating After Dark
Science After Sunclipse has some links to Conan O’Brien spinning his wedding ring and getting help from an MIT professor to maximize the spin time.
(BTW, I have colleagues who use the term “nutate” on a regular basis.)
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Science After Sunclipse has some links to Conan O’Brien spinning his wedding ring and getting help from an MIT professor to maximize the spin time.
(BTW, I have colleagues who use the term “nutate” on a regular basis.)
“Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms and Prospects for Optical Lattice Clocks” Hachisu et al., PRL, 100(5). I haven’t had time to read the paper, but Chad at Uncertain Principles has a summary of it.
My personal nit is that everybody calls these clocks, and they are really frequency standards/references. But [...]