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World Service,1 min

“There’s a hidden netherworld of clocks around us”

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David Rooney, keeper of time at the Science Museum discusses the repercussions of the caesium clock. At the dawn of the atomic age we had managed to build an atomic clock, uncoupling the concept of time from the world around us. Image: David Rooney, Science Museum. Credit: Kevin Fong.

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