More Accurate Clocks Unleash More Disorder in The Universe, Physicists Say BEN TURNER, LIVE SCIENCE What's the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has revealed. Entropy – or disorder – is created every time a clock ticks. Now scientists working with a tiny clock have proven a simple relationship: The more accurate a clock runs, the more entropy it generates.
"If you want your clock to be more accurate, you've got to pay for it," study co-author Natalia Ares, a physicist at the University of Oxford, told Live Science. "Every time we measure time, we are increasing the Universe's entropy."