Florida Researchers Create Shortest Light Pulse Ever Recorded

Bah. You got me on 6.7 x 10^-17 sec.

My gripe is the OP's frame of reference: "an attosecond is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds". That would be like telling me that the Pacific Ocean holds 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 teaspoons of water. That value and that unit should never go together. Lots of zeroes (big or small) is mind-boggling for a layperson or scientist, especially since OP did not give any frame of reference like, "1000 times faster than your eyes turn light into images". It's not a perfect comp

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/k9Kk90fKNt8/florida-researchers-create-shortest-light-pulse-ever-recorded

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