{"id":38,"date":"2008-02-13T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/38"},"modified":"2008-02-13T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:35:53","slug":"trap-some-mercury-make-a-clock-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/38","title":{"rendered":"Trap Some Mercury, Make a Clock (Maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms and Prospects for Optical Lattice Clocks&#8221;  Hachisu et al., PRL, 100(5).   I haven&#8217;t had time to read the paper, but Chad at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/trapping_of_neutral_mercury_at.php#more\">Uncertain Principles<\/a> has a summary of it.<\/p>\n<p>My personal nit is that everybody calls these clocks, and they are really frequency standards\/references.  But almost nobody cares about that.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms and Prospects for Optical Lattice Clocks&#8221; Hachisu et al., PRL, 100(5). I haven&#8217;t had time to read the paper, but Chad at Uncertain Principles has a summary of it. My personal nit is that everybody &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-links","category-physics","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}