Hmm.
There was an article on the BBC yesterday about some boffins who have invented a new type of atomic clock, that is accurate to within 1 second every 300 million years.

This they say will replace the current technology which is only accurate to within 1 second every 100 million years.

My only thought was - how much do these things cost? I would be tempted to spend the money on something else, and put up with the old one, which is a disastrously sloppy 1/2.80e-16 out, rather than the snappy new one at 1/9.33e-17.
(username failed moderation, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 11:21, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

Things are getting better, faster and more accurate.
It's progress.

Say "Thank you".
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 12:33, Reply)

But surely you wouldn't want
a clock that goes faster, would you?
(username failed moderation, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 13:27, Reply)

Well clearly you do.
Why - your atomic clock, at losing a second every 100,000,000 years is only a third as accurate as mine, which only loses a second every 300,000,000 years!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 13:37, Reply)

Good point.
Thank you.
(username failed moderation, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 13:48, Reply)

How about an atomic wrist watch?
www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/01/hoptroff_shows_first_atomic_watch_movement/
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 11 Jul 2013, 18:50, Reply)

1.5 seconds
every 1,000 years?

Absurd. Take this junk away.
(username failed moderation, Fri 12 Jul 2013, 9:22, Reply)

The problem is
that we both have one, and then I walk across the room, they'd be out of sync.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 12:17, Reply)

I don't have a sink
in my room.
(username failed moderation, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 16:54, Reply)

I didn't say which room

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 17 Jul 2013, 18:22, Reply)