Measurement time in billionths of a billionth of a second

Measurement time in billionths of a billionth of a second

The Griffith University interferometer. Credit: Griffith University How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it’s so fast that it only takes them a few attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second) to jump from one atom to another. Blink and you’ve missed it – millions of billions of times. Measuring such …

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