The most accurate man-made machine!
The atom is the pendulum of the clock.
1 second in a million years !
Based on a quantum transition in the atom:
When an electron inside an atom transits between two energy levels, it either emits or absorbs an photon whose frequency is related to the energy difference between the two atomic levels by the Planck’s law: . Thus it creates an atomic oscillator.
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