Sentences with phrase «nanoseconds faster»
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.
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Houston McTear, the world's fastest man for a nanosecond in the late 1970s, was more problematic.
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.
This is not only the fastest data transmission speed to date, but the newly developed optical receiver also features the link power - on / off functionality and can wake - up and achieve phase - lock in eight nanoseconds, the shortest switch time in record.
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.
Thus, with a nanosecond laser, «the fastest you can record information is one information unit, one 0 or 1, every nanosecond,» says Jianbo Hu, a postdoctoral scholar and the first author of the paper.
He also points out that the devices fire faster than actual neurons, on a nanosecond timescale compared with a millisecond one.
These cells can be switched in just 16 nanoseconds — far faster than existing technology.
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.
Know why that 3 - series driver tears up an on - ramp out of nowhere, swoops across three lanes of traffic right in front of you, then settles into the fast lane for a nanosecond before departing toward the horizon at warp speed?