Time Dilation (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Time Dilation

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Quantum mechanics allows for a clock to move as if it were simultaneously traveling at two different speeds. New research finds that this leads to a correction in atomic clocks known as "quantum time dilation."

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Petra Korlevic

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