Sentences with phrase «microseconds long»

Subtracting known influences and comparing their results with satellite records of Earth's day length, they found that elevated temperatures in the pool during El Niño years correlated with days that were a few microseconds longer than in other years.

Not exact matches

A long time means that — for modern electronics, it's a long time — it takes half a millisecond for the photon to go from A to B, so if you decide something like a few tenths of a microsecond before, then that's a long time.

Ps lives less than a microsecond after it is formed, but that is a long enough for it to demonstrate the distinctive properties of an atom.

However, in 1991 a Japanese group discovered that when they fired antiprotons into liquid helium, about 3 per cent lasted longer than expected — up to 15 microseconds.

Raymond Simmonds of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., who led one of the teams, got a seven - millimeter - long wire to store a photon for more than one microsecond.

That's much longer than standard lightning strikes, which last tens of microseconds, and researchers are still struggling to explain how the fireballs persist.

In this case, although the D - Wave One showed some evidence of quantum behaviour, it took longer — 15 microseconds — to solve a problem than the conventional processors, which took 4 and 0.8 microseconds.

Therefore, dark excitons persist with a relatively long life, lasting for over a microsecond — a thousand times longer than a bright exciton and long enough to function as a qubit.

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.

This is why their speed is very, very close to the speed of light: v = 0.999999995 c - to illustrate this, take the distance incredibly long between the Sun and Earth: light takes 8 minutes to travel this distance of 150 million kilometres, and an electron travelling at the speed of the electrons in the ESRF storage ring, will arrive «only» a quarter of a microsecond «later».

The processes (absorption of light, collisional energy transfer and emission) can be separated because the average time that an isolated CO2 molecule takes before it emits a photon is much longer that the time for collisional de-excitation (~ tens of microseconds at atmospheric pressure, less, higher in the atmosphere).

Even if we had extraordinary accurate machines that could detect even the inception of such anomalous behavior lasting only a microsecond, we would have to wait longer than 10 ^ (10 ^ 14) times the age of the universe to record even one such case.

There are a few microsecond - long animation excesses, perhaps, such as when exiting from the list of open apps back to the home screen, but otherwise it's a slick, flagship - like operation.