Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

The physics of timekeeping: from Stonehenge to atomic clocks

This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 3rd Feb 2022

 Free

This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.

The need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history. From the first solstice markers at Newgrange to quartz crystal oscillating in your watch today.

Join physicist Chad Orzel as he discusses time from orbital motion and axial tilt to the quantum mechanics and relativity theory that gives us our ultra-precise atomic clocks.

In this talk, Chad explores the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know.


Contact and Booking Details

This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 3rd Feb 2022

 Free

Booking details and information at this website.

Reserve tickets at this website

Disclaimer: All information given is correct at the time of compiling the listings. Any questions about the event should be directed to the event organiser. Photos and images used in this listing are supplied by the organiser.

2022-02-03 2022-02-03 Europe/London The physics of timekeeping: from Stonehenge to atomic clocks Join Chad Orzel as he explores the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2022/02/03/the-physics-of-timekeeping-from-stonehenge-to-atomic-clocks-284824 ,,,

This is an online video event, please check the organiser for details about how to watch.

What else is hapening in London on 3rd Feb 2022

NEWSLETTER

Be the first to know what's on in London, and the latest news published on ianVisits.

You can unsubscribe at any time from my weekly emails.