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The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change(www.quantamagazine.org)

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An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe.

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Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I imagine a few physicists will be a little upset.

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dhork@lemmy.world
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Except the one who gets the Nobel Prize for proving it

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macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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Eh, theorists just work in units where they’re all 1 anyway. And experimentalists round to to the nearest order of magnitude lol

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