Sentences with phrase «light nanosecond»

A light nanosecond — the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second — is about 1 foot (about 30 cm).

Not exact matches

While unimpeded light will pass through the chip in 2 to 3 nanoseconds, once stored as a sound wave, information can remain on the chip for up to 10 nanoseconds, long enough for it to be retrieved and processed.

Nanosecond white - light Laue diffraction measurements of dislocation microstructure in shock - compressed single - crystal copper

The tragic thing was that this cable was giving a signal — so there was no reason to assume there was a problem — but the signal was delayed by 60 nanoseconds, exactly the time of the faster - than - light anomaly.

The neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds sooner than they would have if they had been travelling at the speed of light, the team says.

Collins and his colleagues used the OMEGA laser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York, which can produce 40 kilojoule pulses of intense light for a nanosecond.

The experiments, in which protons traveling at nearly the speed of light collide head - on, can not directly detect the Higgs, because the boson would decay within a fraction of a nanosecond into other particles.

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.

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.

OPERA detected neutrinos fired from CERN, about 730 kilometres away in Geneva, Switzerland, and found they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected, implying they zipped along at one part in 40,000 faster than the speed of light.

According to the scientists» estimates, the neutrinos arrived at their destination around 60 nanoseconds quicker than the speed of light.

The solution is to redefine the kelvin using a fixed constant of nature, just as the metre has moved from a physical piece of metal to the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum over a specified number of nanoseconds.

The briefest man - made events, pulses of laser light lasting millionths of a nanosecond, can be used for delicate eye surgery, high - bandwidth communications and stop - motion studies of molecules reacting

«Today, nanosecond lasers — lasers that pulse light at one - billionth of a second — are used to record information on DVDs and Blu - ray disks, by driving the material from one state to another,» explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study.

An international team of scientists has produced the first high - powered, randomly polarised laser beam with a «Q switch» laser, which typically emits pulses of light so brief that they're measured in nanoseconds.

Last month the OPERA collaboration at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced that neutrinos had arrived from CERN, 730 kilometres away in Switzerland, 60 nanoseconds faster than light speed.

Beginning in the 1990s, using the National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven National Laboratory), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France), and the BioCARS facility at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory), they reduced time resolution from milliseconds to nanoseconds to 100 picoseconds.

Information traveling at the speed of light would require 617 nanoseconds to travel between the detectors.

No faster - than - light communication: The two detectors measured photons from the same pair a few hundreds of nanoseconds apart, finishing more than 40 nanoseconds before any light - speed communication could take place between the detectors.

Radio waves travel at the speed of light, so the number of nanoseconds divided by 2 tells the radar unit how far away the object is!

In layered nanoseconds, the picture's light of moment appears elaborate and dense.

McIntyre's razor - sharp mind is like a light sword slicing and dicing BS in nanoseconds.

Thanks to Max Planck, it is now demonstrated that the laws of physics did not come into being until a fraction of a nanosecond after the Big Bang, from which it follows that no amount of ingenuity on our part can reveal to us what (or Who) said «Let there be light» and blazed the Universe into glorious existence.

To put that in perspective, light travels about one foot in a nanosecond.

The Moto X Style's camera loads up in nanoseconds, and captures more light than my trusty Samsung Note 4.