Sentences with phrase «of a trillionth of a second of»

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10 It seems obvious that the whole person acts, not an individual occasion, especially since an occasion is one ten trillionth of a second in duration.

Consider that physics believes a quantum event is one ten - trillionth of a second in duration.

And in what universe is «a trillionth of a second» is a measurement of rate?

After each one is born, death should follow about a hundred trillionths of a trillionth of a second later as it falls apart to produce other particles.

Although the pulses are extraordinarily powerful, they are also infinitesimally brief, lasting less than a trillionth of a second.

Simulations show that energy builds up in the vortex for around 10 trillionths of a second before it breaks free in a coherent beam of light, just like a laser (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms5972).

Many of the particles will survive only a trillionth or less of a second before decaying, but that will be long enough to leave a telltale trail.

Understanding the universe so soon after the Big Bang is an amazing achievement, but a lot of interesting stuff happened in that trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second before those ripples cascaded through the infant cosmos.

This polarisation causes the atoms to spiral towards the nanotube, speeding them up until the atoms circle it in just a few trillionths of a second.

That lasted just one - trillionth of a second.»

Delfyett now directs 15 students in six labs developing new lasers from semiconductors, generating pulses trillionths to quadrillionths of a second long.

Each collision creates a subatomic fireball that mimics the first trillionth of a second of the universe's existence.

Ultimately, the most ambitious gravitational wave observatories astronomers can presently conceive might someday record the hiss of waves emitted in the first fractions of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

«In order to observe them, you need the most powerful X-ray source on earth, with the shortest exposure time — one ten - trillionth of a second.»

Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision — trillionths of a billionth of a second

The illuminated matter reaches a temperature in excess of one million kelvins, as hot as the solar corona, in less than a trillionth of a second.

The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, has succeeded to reinforce the Petawatt laser «LFEX» to deliver up to 2,000 trillion watts in the duration of one trillionth of one second (this corresponds to 1000 times the integrated electric power consumed in the world).

For example, the flash of light lasts an incredibly short time, a few tens of trillionths of a second.

Picoseconds are one trillionth of a second, an unimaginable timescale.

Chemical reactions take place so rapidly — often within picoseconds, or a trillionth of a second — that chemists expect intermediate steps in the reaction to be too brief to observe.

A test last year in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Naval Observatory, the division responsible for maintaining the GPS master clock, found that Locata's web of signals synced up within 200 trillionths of a second, more than 50 times faster than GPS.

In this month's Scientific American article «Gravitational - Wave Detectors Get Ready to Hunt for the Big Bang,» Ross Andersen writes about an audacious plan to use exquisitely precise measuring tools called atom interferometers to map out what the universe looked like when it was just a trillionth of a second old.

The camera counts the number of light particles, or photons, that reach it every 56 picoseconds, or trillionths of a second.

«This heat current has the impressively large magnitude of 100 GW per square meter and persists for approximately 50 trillionths of a second.

LISA should be able to peer back in time much earlier — to one - trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

This pulse is only some tenths of a trillionth of a second long and transfers energy to the electrons in the molecule, exciting them into helical motion.

LISA is designed to detect faint gravity waves from extremely far away — gravitational shock waves that were emitted less than a trillionth of a second after the instant of creation.

Up to a trillion high - energy photons, moving in unison, sweep through the matter, heating it to more than one million degrees Celsius — hot as the solar corona — in less than a trillionth of a second.

The tube persisted for just a few trillionths of a second — long enough for the scientists to send one of FACET's powerful positron beams through it.

The CMB preserved how space stretched and squeezed following a phenomenal expansion a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

In theory, such waves reverberated from the Big Bang during the first trillionths of a second of the universe's life.

They should help us to hone descriptions of how, after the big bang, the universe grew from smaller than a proton into a vast expanse in less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

Such a high value of r, for instance, indicates that inflation began even earlier than some models predicted, at one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

For the first time, physicists have measured changes in an atom to the level of zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second — the smallest division of time yet observed.

The Illinois scientists had the technological advantage of super high - speed (at the pico - second, 1 trillionth of a second) and super high - resolution (at the nano - meter, 1 billionth of a meter) «video cameras» making use of neutrons to take movies of the molecules.

During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space - time generated gravitons, gravitational ripples in space - time.

In March 2014, they announced to the world that their small telescope at the South Pole had uncovered possible signs of gravitational waves produced within a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the Big Bang — potentially opening a window into a new regime of physics.

«We believe we now have strong direct evidence that on ultrafast time scales (picoseconds, or trillionths of a second), water modulates protein fluctuations,» he concluded.

Then, 50 trillionths of a trillionth of a second later, the fireball cools, just as the infant universe did as it expanded, and the quarks and gluons merge once again to form protons and neutrons.

Circuits have switching times in picoseconds, or trillionths of a second.

For ultrafast operation of such nano - devices, generation of spin current in picoseconds — one trillionth of a second — a time - scale that is difficult to achieve using electrical circuits, is highly desired,» Cahill added.

The two clocks, one based on caesium atoms and the other on hydrogen, will communicate with a network of clocks back on Earth to compare performance across continents at a level that is equivalent to 10 trillionths of a second.

This time the souped - up time lens opened a gap as wide as 40 trillionths of a second, and the light sensor confirmed that the laser had been cloaked.

For the first time ever, laser physicists have recorded an internal atomic event with an accuracy of a trillionth of a billionth of a second.

A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a a second (10 - 21 s).

With LCLS, the laser pulses 120 times per second, and each pulse lasts as little as one - hundredth of a trillionth of a second.

Because nickel oxide is transparent, the researchers could shoot a laser pulse lasting just a trillionth of a second through it to reach the top nickel iron layer.

Determining the exact distances between telescopes becomes a matter of the accuracy with which these time lapses can be measured — a process in which every picosecond, or trillionth of a second, counts.

In less than a trillionth of a second, atoms can collide, interact and give birth to molecules.

In less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the universe popped into existence, the newborn cosmos expanded from the size of a tiny subatomic particle to roughly the size of a basketball.