Atomic clocks have nothing to do with "clock time". It is for navigation... Ever notice Longitude is in degrees, minutes, seconds, milli-seconds, ect...? It is for positioning and the farther you move from the Earth the more accurate of time you need.
When sending objects into the deep solar system, you need hyper accurate navigation.
Minutes/Seconds/etc. in terms of positioning don't really refer to time. Those are measurements dealing with geometry, specifically, circles and spheres. As best I recall, they're either based on degrees or radians.
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Atomic clocks have nothing to do with "clock time". It is for navigation... Ever notice Longitude is in degrees, minutes, seconds, milli-seconds, ect...? It is for positioning and the farther you move from the Earth the more accurate of time you need.
When sending objects into the deep solar system, you need hyper accurate navigation.
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Minutes/Seconds/etc. in terms of positioning don't really refer to time. Those are measurements dealing with geometry, specifically, circles and spheres. As best I recall, they're either based on degrees or radians.