{"id":1104,"date":"2008-12-11T04:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2008-12-11T04:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:58:57","slug":"this-may-not-bother-anybody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1104","title":{"rendered":"This May Not Bother Anybody Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 but it bothers a geek like me.  Yeah, another leap second story.  I suspect these will propagate, but like a game of &#8220;whisper&#8221; the errors will compound.  <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2008\/12\/threetwooneonehappy-new-year.html\">Three&#8230;Two&#8230;One&#8230;One&#8230;Happy New Year!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They mention <em>THE<\/em> atomic clock (ha! there are <em>many<\/em> atomic clocks) and cesium clock\/standard, but the picture is of a mercury ion clock.  Not that anyone else would notice.  Then there&#8217;s the mortal sin of the US Naval Observatory hyperlink going to the NIST cesium fountain wikipedia entry.  (Don&#8217;t get me wrong \u2014 the folks at NIST do fantastic things and I have a lot of respect for them.  And they&#8217;re fun at conferences.  But get your links straight)<\/p>\n<p>The blurb about miniature clocks goes to a link talking about optical clocks, which are nowhere near deployment as miniature devices.  That&#8217;s purely conceptual at this point \u2014 full-sized optical lattice devices are cutting-edge at the moment, and require a fair amount of care and feeding.  Miniaturization and making them robust enough to be portable, and work as true clocks as opposed to a frequency standard (a true clock runs continuously), is a long way off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 but it bothers a geek like me. Yeah, another leap second story. I suspect these will propagate, but like a game of &#8220;whisper&#8221; the errors will compound. Three&#8230;Two&#8230;One&#8230;One&#8230;Happy New Year! They mention THE atomic clock (ha! there are many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,56],"tags":[94,105,287],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech","category-time","tag-atomic-clocks","tag-bad-journalism","tag-leap-second"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}