Blog post: swansont: The Essential Parts are Not Too Complicated, and the Principle is Easily Explained

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I notice they were talking about achieving good vacuum while showing someone handling a vacuum component with their bare hands, which you wouldn't normally do — fingerprints outgas. But it was the oven, so all of that junk gets baked off pretty quickly.

The mention a performance of a ten-thousandth of a million, or a part in 10^10. Clocks/frequency standards in use today (i.e. part of time scales, reporting their values) do ~100,000 times better, and experimental ones do even better than that, albeit for relatively short durations.

That device, which is a "physics package" (all the fun stuff) plus 6 equipment racks, now fits into about 6" of space in a single equipment rack … and the devices are orders of magnitude better.

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