[time-nuts] Pulsar Source?

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 28 23:20:49 UTC 2012


> All that is of course correct. But ultimately the pulsars are a better
> source, I see it as an application question, could it be utilized? Perhaps
> building an algorithm and basing corrections on multiple pulsars x-ray
> pulses like a GPS constellation for the next generation of conventional GPS.

I think modern atomic clocks are better than Pulsars.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good reference handy.  I think the theorists 
have several ideas for why the period of Pulsars change.


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