Modern time clocks are able to measure time accurately to a second, but in the future they will probably be able to record even more accurately than “to the second”. An ECN Magazine report highlights how researchers are designing a new type of atomic clock that is redefining how we measure time. The research team, based in France, has designed an optical lattice clock, which will leave just one second every 300 million years.
Currently the current breed of atomic clocks is accurately able to measure to the second, but with these recent developments able to measure time to such a precise degree, it opens up the option to start recording time to smaller period, thereby redefining the second.
Bundy Specialists will continue to keep an eye on the developments, but are very confident that this technology is a long way from being implemented in employee time clocks.
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