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- noun Plural form of
attosecond .
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Right now, the "atomic unit of time" is 24 attoseconds, which is the time it takes an electron to travel from one side of a hydrogen atom to the other.
Science is Badass daemonwise 2009
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There are as many of these "attoseconds" in one second as there are seconds in the history of the universe.
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Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light – 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long.
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Those laser pulses are only 2.5 femtoseconds (that's billionths of a millionth of a second) long, and the light that flashes off of the neon was calculated at 80 attoseconds (that's billionths of a billionth of a second) long.
Science is Badass daemonwise 2009
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Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light – 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long.
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The results proved that a single electron could escape during a half-wave of the infrared laser, fleeing in less than 400 attoseconds – an unimaginably short time.
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The events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second.
The Illusion of Time William Harryman 2007
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There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons.
The Illusion of Time William Harryman 2007
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For a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.
The Illusion of Time William Harryman 2007
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They then probed the evolution of this ionization using ultraviolet pulses, each lasting around 100 attoseconds, which they directed along the same path through the krypton.
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