100 attosecond timespan measured.

[Cecil]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnew...ne=-0-000-00000-00000-001-SECS-name_page.html

SCIENTISTS have broken the record for measuring the shortest time interval - a 10 million billionth of a second.

Using short pulses of laser light, researchers watched an electron moving around inside an atom and were able to distinguish events to within a hundred attoseconds - or 0.0000000000000001 seconds.

Cool!

 

[Skeptoid]

Physicist Prof Krausz, of the Photonics Institute at Vienna University of Technology in Austria, said: "It takes an electron about 150 attoseconds to orbit around the proton at the centre of a hydrogen atom. Opening up the attosecond timescale could therefore provide new insights into the incredibly fast processes of the atomic world."

Atto boy, Prof Krausz!

 

[espritch]

NPR was talking about this. They mentioned one femto second is to a second as a second is to the current age of the universe!

So how does an atto second relate to a femto second?

 

[TillEulenspiegel]

Hmmm

Planck time (10^(-43) second)
attosecond (10^(-18) second)...
I just wanna know why I can't get timely service when I have a problem with the IRS.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Because they have the time and you have the problem.
This is based on the Beaurosecond (10^3 regular seconds).

 

[rockoon]

This is enough time for light to travel 0.000003cm. The diameter of a carbon atom is .000000022cm.

In other words.. in the time measured light could travel all the way through a carbon nanotube with a length of 136 carbon atoms.

 

[Soapy Sam]

The light at the end of the tunnel is a single photon.

 

[Brian]

Christ. How do they account for the time the information takes to be transmitted to the machine that measured it?

 

[Ladewig]

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said, 100 attosecond attention span measured.

 

[athon]

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said, 100 attosecond attention span measured.

That would be some of my students.

Athon

 

[richardm]

It's a new target for Cab drivers at traffic lights to aim for.

 

[wipeout]

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said, 100 attosecond attention span measured.

I thought that as well as I glanced down the forum.

 

[sorgoth]

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said, 100 attosecond attention span measured.

I'm like that sometimes.

 

[Badger]

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said, 100 attosecond attention span measured.

This is still 4 times longer than that of the average teenager.

 

[sorgoth]

This is still 4 times longer than that of the average teenager.

I dunno...I would sa Hey aren't black holes cool?

 

[Beanbag]

I suppose they get an attaboy for the attasecond.

Sorry. Just couldn't resist.

Regards;
Beanbag