Design Blueprint: A Pair of Optical Lattice Clocks on Separated Deep-Space Trajectories as a Sensor for a Fifth-Coordinate Frequency Drift
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24142264): This paper presents a space mission design, computed from stated assumptions and not measured, built to measure one quantity: the fractional frequency offset between the two clocks attributed to motion along a fifth coordinate, for which the design case adopts 3.20e-18 in fractional frequency. Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225785207