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- noun Plural form of
femtosecond .
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If you shoot a particle at them and knock a hole in them, they repair themselves; they go zip and they repair the hole in femtoseconds, which is not -- is really quick.
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If you shoot a particle at them and knock a hole in them, they repair themselves; they go zip and they repair the hole in femtoseconds, which is not -- is really quick.
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If you shoot a particle at them and knock a hole in them, they repair themselves; they go zip and they repair the hole in femtoseconds, which is not -- is really quick.
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Each laser pulse packs a 220-millijoule punch into just 60 femtoseconds – an intensity “equivalent to the power of 1000 power plants,” says Kasparian.
Scientists Create Laser to Generate Clouds that Could Trigger Rain on Demand | Impact Lab 2010
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Those laser pulses are only 2.5 femtoseconds (that's billionths of a millionth of a second) long, and the light that flashes off of the neon was calculated at 80 attoseconds (that's billionths of a billionth of a second) long.
Science is Badass daemonwise 2009
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We are reassured by the confident hypothesis that RHIC's 2005 "fireball" – theorized to have produced a double micro-hole – evaporated in mere femtoseconds even after sucking up a goodly amount of matter that simply disappeared from existence completely, never to be seen or heard from again.
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Whilst the invisible effect lasted for only an extremely brief period – an estimated 40 femtoseconds – it demonstrates that such an exotic state of matter can be created using very high power X-ray sources.
Transparent Aluminum Mish 2009
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Whilst the invisible effect lasted for only an extremely brief period – an estimated 40 femtoseconds – it demonstrates that such an exotic state of matter can be created using very high power X-ray sources.
Archive 2009-07-01 Mish 2009
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Which for you should take all of two 2 femtoseconds.
Hitching a lift 2007
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This time is 3.34 femtoseconds or 0.00334 picoseconds.
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