Strontium and
3-D time
Janet Kuypers
4/21/20, (Periodic Table Twitter poem,
#38, Sr, posted on Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, & Tumblr
A box for a watch?
For Strontium atoms
jam-packed in an itty-bitty 3-D cube
1,000 times more dense
than our measly 1-D clocks,
means we’ll have this
ultra-controlled quantum gas
for eons of precision.
We’ll make it measure what we want
right down to Planck time.
Don’t be late.
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