He Ems here are the rest of the photos I took at the NRC campus yesterday. The first two are of the new Atomic Clock that is being built by the scientists and researchers there. Apparently it is a completely new type of clock that is even more accurate than the old one. They told me that instead of laying the big metal tube out on a table, they stood it up and put it inside this metal cabnet. Then they used a series of lasers to make the Cesium (or as I like to call it the sneezium) atoms slow down. Or that is how I think it works. All that matters is that the new clock will be 100 times more accurate than the old one and that one is pretty accurate!
Me on the new atomic clock
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| They call it a cesium fountain clock |
After seeing the new clock I was then allowed to go into a very special labatory where they keep samples of various metals. What is so special about them is that they are formed into super accurate chunks that are exactly 1 kg. And I mean exactly.
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| Here I am in the Mass lab |
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| These are super accurate weights |
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