JILA redshift atom cloud (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

JILA redshift atom cloud

Caption

JILA researchers measured time dilation, or how an atomic clock's ticking rate varied by elevation, within this tiny cloud of strontium atoms.

Credit

Jacobson/NIST

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License

Public Domain

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