This is very true. Norman Ramsey built one out of aluminum. It was at least 6 feet in diameter and 8 feet long, at a guess. When I frequented that lab (mid-late 80s), it was too big to get it out the door room so had shelves inside to store equipment. It was inside a giant wooden crate, easily 10' cubial.
-John ============== [snip] > The size of the glass-bulb is not a fixed thing, during research and > development different sizes glass-bulbs is used to establish the > wall-shift aspects in order to adjust for it, which is needed in order > to make absolute measurements on the "free" atom resonance or compensate > into that regard. > > As for reference, there is about one set of books and papers from a > handful of journals and a bunch of patents which needs to the read in > order to build up the knowledge-base for attempting something like it. > > It's a complicated field and several traps to fall into on the way. It > is a fairly sizeable project to attempt. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.