What is a Femtosecond? | |||||
millisecond | microsecond | nanosecond | picosecond | femptosecond | |
1/1000 | 1/1000000 | 1/1000000000 | 1/1000000000000 | 1/1000000000000000 | |
A femtosecond is to a second, what a second is to 32 million years. | |||||
In one second, a beam of light travels 186,000 miles, seven times around the Earth, or three quarters of the way to the Moon. | |||||
In one femtosecond, light travels 0.3 microns (a fraction of a human hair). |
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