Sentences with phrase «billionth of a billionth of a second»

This interaction takes place in attosecond times (i.e. billionths of a billionth of a second).

Within a few hundred attoseconds — billionths of a billionth of a second — of being hit by an X-ray pulse, they are already back where they were, sitting calmly in a low - energy state.

Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest - ever flash of light — 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long.

But this time interval is predicted to be extremely brief — in the order of tens to hundreds of attoseconds, with one attosecond being one billionth of a billionth of a second.

Just like a ball returns to its original shape after the hand that has distorted it is removed, so the nucleus returns to its original form, but it does so much, much faster, in billionths of a billionth of a second or an even shorter time.

Their mercurial movements can be over in just attoseconds — billionths of a billionth of a second — yet they drive our electronic devices, every chemical reaction in nature and every thought in our heads.

The changes to and propagation of light waves in an electrical field take place on a time scale of a few hundred attoseconds — in other words, within one billionth of a billionth of a second.

Using tunneling ionization and ultrashort laser pulses, scientists have been able to observe the structure of a molecule and the changes that take place within billionths of a billionth of a second when it is excited by an electron impact.

Depending on how many atoms were contained in the nanoparticles, these objects reacted differently over attosecond timescales (an attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second).

Although neon is a relatively simple atom with a total of ten electrons, the experiment required both extremely careful timing, with a level of accuracy within one billionth of a billionth of a second (known as an attosecond), and extremely sensitive electron detection that could distinguish between electrons whose speed differed only by around one thousandth of an attojoule (a millionth of an electron's stationary energy).

The result is 0.00000000000000002 seconds, or 20 billionths of a billionth of a second.

One attosecond lasts for exactly one billionth of a billionth of a second.

This field focuses on phenomena such as electron motions in molecules and atoms, which can take place on attosecond timescales (an attosecond lasts for a billionth of a billionth of a second, 10 - 18 sec).

The authors of the study, experimentalists led by Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and theoreticians from Russia, Denmark, Belgium and Canada, including Oleg Tolstikhin from MIPT, are investigating what is known as «attophysics» - the study of events with attosecond time resolution, i.e. a billionth of a billionth of a second (10 ^ -18 of a second).

Not exact matches

Scientists have puzzled for years about how the process can capture roughly 95 % of energy from in sunlight in just one million - billionth of a second.

And you have to do it in a few billionths of a second.

For perspective, the record laser shot occurred in 23 - billionths of a second.

When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like we just ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.

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But actually measuring those times and distances to the accuracy needed to detect differences of billionths of a second (1 nanosecond = 1 billionth of a second) is no easy task.

According to Milgrom, this change holds only when accelerations fall below one 10 - billionth of a meter per second every second.

Physicists believe that by the time the universe was just 10 - 33 of a second old (that's a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second), the temperature had dropped from unimaginably hot to a mere 18 million billion billion degrees.

Seven times more energetic than its predecessor, Fermilab's Tevatron, this synchrotron will peer back in time to conditions that existed a billionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about five one - billionths of a second.

This type of laser, which fires pulses that last only one - billionth of a second, creates a barrage of molecular fissures while leaving the surrounding material intact.

Not much by clock standards, but quite a lot in the realm of quantum states, in which multiple calculations can be carried out in a nanosecond, or a billionth of a second.

The lasers blast the target with up to 500 trillion watts of power for 20 billionths of a second.

Atomic clocks now routinely tick off nanoseconds (one billionths of a second) by tuning microwave lasers to match one frequency of light emitted by a cesium atom.

«Very short laser pulses, which last only a few billionths of a second, are shot at different positions in space to determine the speed, direction of motion and the rotational motion of the objects,» explains Dr. Dr. Oliver de Vries.

Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision — trillionths of a billionth of a second

Instead, IceCube's focus is on the big picture: It catalogs an increase of light in its detectors produced by neutrinos interacting in the ice in time slices of two billionths of a second, says IceCube leader Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

With this minor change, which kicks in when accelerations dip below one 10 - billionth of a meter per second every second, Milgrom found that he could perfectly predict the motions of galaxies without introducing the fudge factor of dark matter.

The chemical reaction is incredibly quick, taking less that a thousandth of a billionth of a second,» said Villy Sundström, Professor of Chemistry at Lund University.

Horowitz says the telescope could detect optical pulses as brief as one - billionth of a second.

When these gamma rays reach the Earth's atmosphere they are absorbed, producing a short - lived shower of secondary particles that emit weak flashes of bluish light known as Cherenkov radiation, lasting just a few billionths of a second.

To put it another way, it's one millionth of one billionth of a second.

The laser pulses namely have to be amply strong and extremely short — on the order of femtoseconds in duration (millionths of a billionth of a second).

The resulting saser can build up an intense, pure sound wave at a specific frequency in the terahertz range (far, far above the limit of human hearing) for a few billionths of a second.

Clocks in timing labs across the globe can then be synchronized, albeit in retrospect, to a billionth of a second.

The X-ray pulses produced by the LCLS last just 50 millionths of a billionth of a second (50 femtoseconds), allowing them to capture even the fastest movements.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

Kopeikin estimated that Jupiter caused only a tiny amount of deflection — less than 15 billionths of an arc second, or the thickness of a human hair as seen from a distance of 400 miles.

It uses a laser beam to excite molecules to glow, and a second beam to cancel out all fluorescence except that in a small nanometer - scale (billionths of a meter) volume.

They then zapped the electrons in the well with pulses of laser light, each 100 million billionths of a second long and covering a spot 16/100 of an inch across.

The sample — diamond — is vaporized in less than 10 billionths of a second.

The scientists let strong, approximately four - femtosecond - long laser pulses hit the group of atoms (a femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second).

It would be capable of generating 500 million megawatts, or nearly two hundred times the capacity of all the world's power stations, for more than 3 billionths of a second.

For the first time, physicists have measured changes in an atom to the level of zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second — the smallest division of time yet observed.

The Illinois scientists had the technological advantage of super high - speed (at the pico - second, 1 trillionth of a second) and super high - resolution (at the nano - meter, 1 billionth of a meter) «video cameras» making use of neutrons to take movies of the molecules.

Paul French, Roy Taylor and Robert Mellish of the Femtosecond Optics Group at Imperial College, London have built a low - cost semiconductor laser which generates pulses of light, each lasting 200 millionths of a billionth of a second (femtoseconds).