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General relativity

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A small glowing blue cloud of strontium atoms at the center of a vacuum chamber, framed by dark laboratory hardware.
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Time is what clocks do

The best optical clocks would drift by less than a second over the age of the universe. They can see gravity change the flow of time across a millimeter, and the second itself is due to be redefined around them.

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