[time-nuts] New frequency standard, Mercury better than Cesium?
Bill Janssen
billj at ieee.org
Mon Jul 17 01:17:47 UTC 2006
Dave Andersen wrote:
>Compare your clock to an ensemble of really good clocks.
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> -Dave
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UTC is determined by using a large ensemble of clocks and weighting the
individual clocks
contribution depending how much they varied from the average (or some
such measure) The details
I don't remember :-)
Bill K7NOM
>Hal Murray wrote:
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>>From the horses mouth:
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>> http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/mercury_atomic_clock.htm
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>>This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while.
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>>How do you tell how good your best clock is? I can figure out how good a
>>not-great clock is by comparing it to a better one. But what if there isn't
>>a better one?
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