On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:54:24 -0400 Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > If you look at a modern CPU as “just a handful of sand and some stuff”, it > seems > pretty easy to build one in the kitchen after an hour or two of setup. When > you dig > into the nasty details the line costs rapidly spiral off into the > stratosphere. Atomic > standards are not quite as complex, but there still is more than just a > little custom > equipment involved. $1M sounds a bit on the low side of what it might take.
Not necessarily. There is a large corpus of knowledge available on how to build vapor cells standards and what is a good idea and what isn't. Most of it is documented in papers of the PTTI, EFTF and IFCS. The former two are freely available (for PTTI until 2010, but that should be good enough). Getting access to those papers behind a paywall, you only need to know someone with access to a university. (not for PTTI post 2010 though, ION has quite anal access rules) Additionally, the people in the time and frequeny community are very open to discussion and exchange of knowledge. You can almost always just walk up to someone and ask questions with a high chance of getting not only answers but help in how to proceede. Tapping into this knowhow would avoid the need to try out the whole solution space and concentrate on the few parts that are unkown or not well enough understood and optimize those. And by doing so safe a lot of money. Attila Kinali -- Malek's Law: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. _______________________________________________ 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.