How small is a Zeptosecond ?

Zeptosecond

Purwakarta – Time is the entire series of ongoing activity processes. In this case, the time scale is the interval between two circumstances/events, or it can be thought of as the duration of an event.

Time is also indicated by a unit scale of measurement. The following is an example of a 1 year time convention in other time conversion units.

1 year = 31536025,228 seconds

1 year = 525600,420 minutes

1 year = 8760.007 hours

1 year = 365,0002 days

1 year = 52.142 weeks

1 year = 12 months

1 year = 0.1 decade

1 year = 0.01 century

Then what is the smallest unit of time??

Scientists have measured the world’s smallest unit of time, and it’s called the zeptosecond. Zeptosecond is a unit of time equal to 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 seconds, i.e. 10-²¹ seconds, and with the symbol zs.

Zeptoseconds were recorded by a group of scientists at Goethe University, in Germany and published in the journal Science.

The scientists measured how long it took a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule – about 247 zeptoseconds – making this measurement the shortest time span ever recorded. According to Albert Einstein Photon is a quantum of light is a packet of electromagnetic radiation energy.

But how small is a zeptosecond…?

A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a millionth of a second. That’s a decimal point followed by 20 zeros and 1s, and looks like this: 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001. The only unit of time shorter than the zeptosecond is the yoctosecond. A yoctosecond (ys) is one millionth of a second.

Journal Reference:

Sven Grundmann, Daniel Trabert, Kilian Fehre, Nico Strenger, Andreas Pier, Leon Kaiser, Max Kircher, Miriam Weller, Sebastian Eckart, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Florian Trinter, Till Jahnke, Markus S. Schöffler, Reinhard Dörner. Zeptosecond Birth Time Delay in Molecular Photoionization. Science, 2020 DOI: 10.1126/science.abb9318