When Time is told through a Rock

What is time? That is the question a certain man named Holger Muller has been asking himself since as a child in Germany. He teaches physics at the University of California and as he teaches this question of what is time is what has propelled him to invent a new method of telling time. In science it is well known that matter occupies space and has weight therefore it is a particle and can exist as a wave. Holger Muller introduces to the world a new way of time telling by counting the number of times that the wave produced by matter moves. Compared to light this wave moves ten billion times more.

Muller believes that there is no difference between a rock and a clock. His theory is supported with what he refers to as the Compton clock. The whole theory is explained in a science publication known as the issue of science and the paper is found on the January eleventh issue. He has explained this theory together with his colleagues and their point of reference is the cesium atom.

He says that when he was a young child who read books on science he could not seem to stop wondering why the subject of time was not adequately addressed. On the back of his mind he asked himself what simple thing could be used to tell time. He wanted something simple and basic. He found that simple system in a particle. Muller also works at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory his status being a guest scientist.

Is the clock invented by Muller up to the required standards? Well it is not but it is certainly going to have some improvements done on it. Experts say that it is still a hundred million times less adequate to the clocks we have today. The clocks that we use today operate with aluminum ions and if the improvements are done on the rock clock then it can perform as good as what we have.

Is the rock clock really a clock? Well this tongue twister will be in the mouths of many as the experiment is to be debated by brilliant minds. One such intellect is John Close who is a quantum physicist doing his work at the Australian National University. He does not doubt that Holger Muller’s clock does work because he has made one for himself and seen it work thus he believes the statement of Muller that a rock is a clock is quite true and well proven.

Muller is open to further discussions as he knows that what he is tackling is something that many students of quantum physics students have been trying to understand for almost a century. He says that the ideas behind his theory are under discussion with John Close so that people may understand Quantum physics in a better way. The technique that Muller has can also be used to measure mass. The original measure of standard for mass is in France but its exact copies are what every country in the world has. This technique of using waves produced by matter will enable researchers to develop their own standard of measure for kilograms.

Matter being viewed as a wave started from 1924 by Louis de Broglie. He took the idea of the equality of mass and energy and put it together with the idea that all energy is related to a frequency. He got a Nobel peace prize in physics in 1929 for his idea that matter can also exist as a wave. The question of how the oscillations of matter would be measured can be raised and Muller has an atom interferometer which reads atoms as waves. This he built after noting very well that he could not build clockwork for the waves produced by matter.

Something however changed and this is because of the twin paradox whereby time freezes for things in motion. In the interferometer the waves of matter and cesium atoms were interfering with each other. Muller used a laser to synchronize everything and every other frequency referred itself to the waves of matter. Muller wants to use a standard of mass which is based on time and this will bring about the Avogadro sphere a more precise way of measuring mass.

So back to the question of what time is does Muller have an answer? He says no one will ever know the final answer but still a step further has been made in knowing its properties. Holger Muller plans to work with other smaller particles so as to create what is known as an antimatter clock and that he will also be able to use quantum fluctuations. Muller is assisted by his colleagues in the department of physics at the University of California to author his work and he is supported by various science supporting organizations.