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by defrost 775 days ago
For interest, Precision Vs Accuracy, Atomic Clocks Vs Sapphire Oscillator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232645

Detecting gravity waves with large laser triangles required a few advances in technology - precision clocks was one.

Not so long ago had you asked your question the answer would have been "detect gravity waves".