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The Skeptics Guide #877 - Apr 30 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Using Atomic Clocks to Detect Gravitational Waves

This was proven back in two thousand and 15 so physicists atd n i s t were working on these optical atomic clocks, and they noticed that the time was not consistent on all their clocks. All the clocks were at slightly different altitude. A clock that was one centimeter higher than another one that was a few miles away was reading time differently because it was farther from the centr of the earth. Bob, think about that. I already have. I talked about it, like a year and a half ago on this show. What yo say to you said, gravitationa wavea yes, they said. Bob, the article said that these things could detect tational waves and dark matter

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