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Scientists measure the shortest interval of time ever recorded
short by Pragya Swastik / on Thursday, 22 October, 2020
Atomic physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and DESY have measured that it takes 247 'zeptoseconds' for a photon to travel across a hydrogen molecule. It's the shortest time span that has been successfully measured to date. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second.
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