New method developed for synchronising clocks

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 03:00 in Biology & Nature

Maintaining the correct time is no longer just a matter of keeping your watch wound - especially when it comes to computers, telecommunications, and other complex systems. The clocks in these devices must stay accurate to within nanoseconds because their oscillators - objects, like quartz crystals, which repeat the same motion over and over again - are synchronised to agree with the clocks on board Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites...

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