Sentences with phrase «differences of billionths of a second»

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.

Not exact matches

The difference — which I appreciate more than you can guess — is that a Physicist drops two like objects — one red and one blue — of dissimilar mass off the top of Uncertainty and watches what happens, and might like Newton derive laws, and builds on those laws to the point that interesting questions might be asked about a difference of a 60 billionth of a second, while a marketing scientist draws trees of all the opinions expressed by everyone in the audience and wonders what opinions he ought repeat so he can sell more red balls.