{"id":114667,"date":"2020-10-19T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-measure-the-shortest-length-of-time-ever-zeptoseconds"},"modified":"2020-10-19T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:25:25","slug":"scientists-measure-the-shortest-length-of-time-ever-zeptoseconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-measure-the-shortest-length-of-time-ever-zeptoseconds","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Measure The Shortest Length of Time Ever: Zeptoseconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-measure-the-shortest-length-of-time-ever-zeptoseconds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/28466-hydrogen.html\">hydrogen<\/a> molecule.<\/p>\n<p>That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, researchers had dipped into the realm of zeptoseconds; in 2016, researchers reporting in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=92X1590019&xcust=livescience_au_2520800682785557000&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fnphys3941%3Fproof%3DtrueMay&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fzeptosecond-shortest-time-unit-measured.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Nature Physics<\/a><\/em> used lasers to measure time in increments down to 850 zeptoseconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule. That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1. Previously, researchers had dipped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}