[time-nuts] Mercury Ion Clock

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <54544287.3000805 at pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes:
>Hi Bob:
>
>I suspect that inside a screen room like that one, where I'm
>guessing the walls are iron/steel, there's not much of the
>Earth's mag field left to null.

That would be very counter productive, because you would invariably
get a very complex mag field which owuld be much harder to cancel out.


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