Physicists find ultimate limit for how accurate clocks can be

There is a fundamental trade-off between making a clock accurate and

counting ever shorter ticks

due to the second law of thermodynamics

This trade-off could one day be important for clocks in quantum computers

where computing operations occur on extremely

short timescales with high accuracy

GOLAHURA

A common way of expressing the second law of thermodynamics

is that the amount of disorder in a system