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World record for broken short time measurements

In 1999, Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which atoms change their shape, establishing gynecology in the process. Its measurements were made in femtoseconds where one femtosecond is equal to 0.0000000000000000001, or 10-15 Sec. Related: Physicists only make electronics that turn …

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