Zeptoseconds: New world record in short-term measurement – AlKhaleej Today

In 1999, Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed with which molecules change shape. He founded femtochemistry with ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breaking of chemical bonds takes place in the femtosecond range. One femtosecond is equal to 0.000000000000001 seconds or 10-15 seconds. Now atomic physicists at Goethe University in Professor Reinhard Dörners team have for the first time investigated a process that is orders of magnitude shorter than…

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