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| 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 is 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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