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Science 19 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5700, pp. 1310 - 1311
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5700.1310
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Time's Romance of the Decimal Point

Robert F. Service

BOULDER, COLORADO--Time's running out for the cesium atomic clock. To squeeze additional decimal points of accuracy out of the world's top timekeepers, researchers are turning to some of the more esoteric corners of quantum mechanics.

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