How to Use attosecond in a Sentence

attosecond

noun

• Enlarge / An attosecond is to one second as one second is to the age of the universe.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
• To study the movement of electrons, the scientists had to use pulses of light that last an attosecond.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• In one-billionth of a second, one billion attoseconds pass.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• In fact, there are approximately as many attoseconds in one second as there are seconds in the age of the universe.
  — Aaron W. Harrison, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• One attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second (10-18 second) – the ratio of one attosecond to one second is the same as the ratio of one second to the age of the universe.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Not a lot: a clock needs to be accurate to within a few attoseconds (10-18s) to be able to detect centimeter differences in height.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
• Attosecond pulses let physicists detect anything that changes over a span of dozens to hundreds of attoseconds.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• Optical atomic clocks, which use laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or one billionth of a billionth of a second.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
• Researchers have created light pulses lasting just 53 attoseconds using high-speed lasers.
  — David Labrador, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2012
• Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2023
• The scientists were recognized for their experimental methods that create flashes of light that are measured in attoseconds — quintillionths of a second.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Oct. 2023

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