While many of us take the passage of a split-second for granted, for Dr Michael Wouters it's a serious business.
abc.net.au/news/michael-wouters-nmi-time-and-frequency-standards-leader/102372544The philosophical debate about the existence of time is perhaps as old as time itself, but there is little argument the construct has an almost all-encompassing impact on our daily lives.
"You have common clocks, like the one in your watch, which is a little quartz oscillator, but ultimately what one second is is defined by atomic clocks. "So what we do is, we say one second is an exact number of those ticks — we just count them up until we get to that number and then we say that's one second."Our ever-increasing reliance on new technologies means the measure of time has never been so critical.
"It measures the time that the GPS receiver in your phone or car, it measures the time it takes the signals to arrive from the GPS satellite system and those timing measurements are used to work out distances.
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