Science
World Record of Smallest Time Measurement Broken | IE – Interesting Engineering
The shortest timespan that has ever been measured amounts to about 247 zeptoseconds (1 zs = 10^-21 seconds)
Back in 1999, Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail was awarded the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape, founding femtochemistry in the process. His measurements were made in femtosecond where one femtosecond equals 0.000000000000001 seconds, or 10-15 seconds.
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