Difference in Clock Readings May Detect Dark Matter (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Reno

Difference in Clock Readings May Detect Dark Matter

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This two-clocks-illustration shows the pattern of how two atomic clocks would desynchronize and then resynchronize due to a lump of dark matter sweeping through a Global Positioning System or other atomic clock based network.

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Photo courtesy of Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno.

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