Sentences with phrase «done in a fraction of a second»

AMHERST, Mass. — Experimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.

Everyone wants to get things done in a fraction of a second.

The adaption of the suspension is done in fractions of a second.

Of course, all of this decision making has to be done in fractions of a second.

Not exact matches

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

This is the pleasure that comes from an expertly weighted cross-court lob, or a perfectly squared - off dove joint, or that moment when the crumpled envelope doesn't even touch the edges of the bin and you feel, just for one blessed fraction of a second, like the greatest human being in the history of the universe.

We don't see anything like that in the universe today, however, so cosmologists had to assume the potent energy field existed for only a fraction of a second after the Big Bang and then vanished.

Unlike a black hole in space, the X-rayed atom does not draw in matter from its surroundings through the force of gravity, but electrons with its electrical charge — causing the molecule to explode within the tiniest fraction of a second.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

People make up their mind about a book just by looking at the cover and they do so in a fraction of a second.

This feature does not function 100 % perfectly all of the time; in the fraction of a second that my pen lifts from the screen, in some apps, my palm might get picked up.

The flicker has gone from a 1 - 2 second annoyance in early eReaders to a barely noticeable flicker that takes a fraction of the time turning a physical page would on the Kindle Paperwhite, but it does still exist.

* Legible clocks: if you can't check the time in a fraction of a second without taking your hands off the keyboard, you're doing it wrong.

They'll read your finger no matter which way you place it on and do it lightning quick in a fraction of a second.