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by Q_is_4_Quantum
2064 days ago
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Not OP, and I don't have time (hah) to do the calculation but a rough rule of thumb is that if you take a "normal size" of a quantity (mass, speed, etc) then relativistic effects become measurable when you scale it by c^2, ie about 10^17. So e.g. We have had clocks for a while that are accurate to a part in 10^18, so they can measure time dilation at walking speed. Or detect gravitational time dilation when you lift something (the clock!) up one meter in the earths gravitational field. Yet another way of saying how amazing this new result is: A second is much "closer" to the age of the universe than it is to a zeptosecond. |
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https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=90505...