Shortest times

Your eyes blink about once per second.

The finish time of sports events is measured in milliseconds
(1 ms = 0.001 s).

A high-speed camera records times in microseconds
(1 µs = 0.000,001 s).

A computer's electrical impulse happens in nanoseconds
(1ns = 0.000,000,001 s).

Chemical processes such as breaking DNA happen in picoseconds
(1 ps = 0.000,000,000,001 s).

Processes inside an atom happen in femtoseconds
(1 fs = 0.000,000,000,000,001 s).

The fastest laser pulse is currently a few attoseconds
(1 as = 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 s).

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