Weird idea but I wonder if there are ways to take this from "crazy tech" to "hard tech".
Weird idea but I wonder if there are ways to take this from "crazy tech" to "hard tech".
Then again the precision of the gravitational wave instruments measure distance on the order of the width of a proton, so who knows.
Terrestrial infrared and optical interferometry telescopes are on the bleeding edge right now.
I think the bigger challenge may be how you would transport the clocks after synchronization to maintain it across astronomical distances since they're very sensitive to any kind of acceleration. Since you have to regularly re-synchronize them in space anyway, that feels like the engineering problem you'd have to solve - how do you synchronize two atomic; the current record is synchronizing to within 0.32fs at a distance of 300km [1].
[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/atomic-clock-femtosecond-accuracy