[fatty_ashy]

hi...i'm writing a thousand word essay on "E=mc2", it's suppose to be an essay on a theory that has affected my life significantly.
Anyway....I was just wondering if the special theory of relativity has had anything to do with the creation of atomic clock. Does anyone know the answer to that? Thanks

[Tormod]

Don't know of this is of any help, but NASA has an article about atomic clocks and how they can be used to test the influence of speed and gravity on such clocks.

Tick-Tock Atomic Clock

Just my 2c.

Tormod

[fatty_ashy]

but does atomic clocks have anything to do with special relativity or not?

[fatty_ashy]

Doesn't anyone know whether Special relativity had anything to do with the creation of atomic clocks??

[Tormod]

Sorry, ashy. Maybe it's simply because it's summer...

Why don't you just try to search Google...

for example: "atomic clocks" AND "special relativity"

Tormod

[dgeake]

Fatty,
The only connection I know of between Atomic Clocks and Relativity, is that these clocks are accurate enough that they can be used to observe time dilation predicted by relativity.

The change in energy states which make Cesium Atomic clocks accurate actually is a consequence of quantum effects. Quantum physics is not really related to relativity in any obvious way. It must be related in some non-obvious ways, but Quantum physics was developed without much regard to Relativity. They will all come together someday in a TOE (Theory of Everything).

http://science.howstuffworks.com/atomic-clock4.htm

[dgeake]

<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.crystalinks.com/wormholes.html">Wormholes</a>

just testing to see if I can imbed a link.