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Your link says that one picosecond is one millionth of one millionth of a second. The article itself says (or at least is written to imply) that ten picosecond
by CocaKoala 10y ago
Your link says that one picosecond is one millionth of one millionth of a second.
The article itself says (or at least is written to imply) that ten picoseconds is one millionth of one millionth of a second.
Since ten is not one, one of those two statements (and definitely not ten of those two statements) must be incorrect.
- 24gttghh 10y agoI believe Wolfgang Tittel was simply defining a picosecond for the readers of the article.
- CocaKoala 10y agoYou're probably right. However, the article is written in a way which at the very least heavily implies something else. >“The challenge was to keep the photons’ arrival time synchronized to within 10 pico-seconds,” says Tittel. “That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second.”
- 3chelon 10y agoExactly. Which is how I read it. And how anyone would read it, I would think.