Sentences with word «microsecond»

A microsecond is a unit of time that measures one millionth (1/1,000,000) of a second. It is an extremely short period used to describe how fast something can happen. Full definition
According to Weinberg (1977 p. 5), a slightly different sequence of events in the first few microseconds of the «big bang» would have resulted in a universe of all helium and no hydrogen.
The top traders can execute their trades in microseconds with HFT.
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York announced in April that they had re-created the searing - hot mix of exotic particles that filled the universe during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
In 1979, Kemp found that a few microseconds after sound enters a healthy ear, the same sound — amplified up to 10 times — can be detected emanating from the ear.
As I understand it, Alan Guth's work, and that of others exploring the first microseconds of what people of biblical faith know as Creation, builds on Lemaître's insights.
Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.
The new method offers a variety of advantages: for example, the gate operations take place within microseconds which is an asset for quantum information processing.
When you own multi-family, don't think for microsecond the tenants don't talk.
At frequency around 10 GHz, the Square - Kilometre - Array, once available, will provide the highest sensitivity and deliver the capability to achieve timing precision as good as 100 microsecond with GC pulsars.
Combining the inputs from all the sensors on microsecond timescales — something that has never been done before — will allow the researchers to capture a stroke as it ignites, accelerates, and moves charge.
Though Precision Time Protocol (PTP) offers microsecond accuracy - far higher than the competitor Network Time Protocol - ensuring synchronisation across networked devices is non-trivial.
Wang wrote the article, «Liquid — liquid transition in supercooled water suggested by microsecond simulations.»
The source now unveiled by the University of Warsaw physicists represents the first implementation of this concept, and one that's much more integrated: here, all the photons are created immediately within the quantum memory as a result of the laser pulse, which lasts only microseconds.
Dodge the on - coming Neo Barriers with increasing speed, forcing you to react at the last microsecond.
Three of its instruments would simultaneously measure energy spectra and polarization of x-rays from cosmic sources, and track how emissions change over microseconds to milliseconds as objects pulsate or rotate.
The primary pulses were composed of a series of shorter pulses, each lasting less than a nanosecond, while the secondary pulses consisted of a relatively steady signal lasting several microseconds long.
It was a glancing blow; a few microseconds later, it might have been much worse.
The Chicago Stock Exchange in August outlined plans to adopt what it calls a Liquidity Taking Access Delay, a 350 - microsecond delay for those who trade against resting orders on the exchange.
IEX, which gained exchange status last June, challenged the industry's status quo by introducing a 350 - microsecond trading «speed bump.»
«We're very confident that after several microseconds there is entanglement,» says Spedalieri.
The findings reveal new aspects of the ultra-hot, «perfect fluid» that give clues to the state of the young universe just microseconds after the big bang.
The length of the perimeter is an exact whole number of half - inches, the area in square centimetres is an integral number which is a perfect cube, and the speed of light in my dining room is 0.3 kilometres per microsecond.
Each cell captured microsecond - scale snapshots of the air - fuel mix during turbulent combustion, including particle diffusion, chemical reactions, heat transfer, and energy exchange.
«Exotic matter: A closer look at the perfect fluid sheds light on what happened microseconds after the Big Bang.»
The idea behind ALICE is to recreate the exotic, primordial «soup of particles» known as quark - gluon plasma that appeared microseconds after the universe's birth.
The researchers obtained that result by statistically comparing the temporal distribution of protons within the 10.5 microsecond pulses that produce the neutrinos at CERN with that of the neutrinos observed in its detector.
The physicists first pump up certain atoms in the glass with a two - and - half - microsecond sound pulse of carefully chosen intensity and frequency.
Within a few milliseconds or even microseconds.
Why not hours, or multiples of Pi microseconds?
Shock waves from two tiny explosions interact in this 1 - microsecond Schlieren photograph, which color - codes air densities.
She plugged in new x-ray snapshots of p53 fragments and beefed up her program to make a movie of the quivering activity of each of the protein's 1.6 million atoms over a full microsecond, an eternity on the atomic scale that required about a month of supercomputer time.
The two effects don't quite cancel out, so altogether, the satellite's onboard clock runs about 38 microseconds too fast each day.
At RHIC, over a thousand scientists from all over the world come to study the behaviors of matter as it is thought to have acted microseconds after the Big Bang.
Without all that inconvenient ice in the way, cable - laying ships can put in place a direct optical link along the great circle between New York and Tokyo, shaving precious microseconds off arbitrage deals on financial markets.
Until the first gold atoms started making their 13 - microsecond laps around RHIC's 2.4 - mile - long perimeter, physicists thought they had a pretty good idea of what to expect from the collisions.
we must incorporate myriad subtle and interacting factors, from the selective pressures that shaped our primate gene pool eons ago to the burst of neurotransmitters in the previous microsecond.
In luminescent materials made so far the luminescence takes microseconds (millionths of a second) to die away.
The microscope will allow detailed study of chemical and biological structures with nanosecond to microsecond temporal resolution.
Biological processes on the other hand need microseconds of simulation time.
After determining the high - resolution structure of OGT he also ran a 2 microsecond molecular dynamics simulation — one of the longest ever done in academia — to show how the GlcNAc transferase opens its conformation to bind with a peptide.
The real time controller (U-RTCE) synchronizes the laser and camera with microsecond illumination accuracy to reduce photobleaching and phototoxicity, helping cells remain healthy during complex experiments.
Sure, launch control is a neat trick to show your pals once or twice, but the quicker shifts on track do make a difference, even if it just makes you feel more of the mechanicalness while only saving microseconds.
Traditional publishing has become a waiting game, and in a digital world of microsecond attention spans, that is tantamount to suicide.
Much of Joffe's earlier work has been predicated on the «visible signage of the fashionable, especially the fashion photograph, and the fashion photograph's microsecond relations with ideas of human - female - social and sexual signalings».
Regular visitors here will be aware that I'm a musician and songwriter in spare microseconds.
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