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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with 1 E2 s, Kilosecond, 1 E4 s, 1 E5 s, 1 E6 s, 1 E7 s, 1 E8 s, 1 E9 s, 1 E10 s, 1 E11 s, 1 E12 s, 1 E13 s, 1 E14 s, 1 E15 s, 1 E16 s, 1 E17 s, 1 E18 s, 1 E19 s and more, Orders of magnitude (time) and second to form Time. () |
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10−15 seconds and 10−12 seconds (1 femtosecond and 1 picosecond). A femtosecond is one billionth of one millionth of a second. For context, a femtosecond is to a second, what a second is to about 32 million years. See also times of other orders of magnitude.
- shorter times
- 1.3 femtoseconds (fs) – cycle time for 390 nanometre light, transition from visible light to ultraviolet
- 2.57 femtoseconds – cycle time for 770 nanometre light, transition from visible light to near-infrared
- 100 femtoseconds – the time required to travel across a human hair, if traveling at the speed of light
- 200 femtoseconds – the swiftest chemical reactions, such as the reaction of pigments in an eye to light
- 300 femtoseconds – the duration of a vibration of the atoms in an iodine molecule
- longer times
See also
| Orders of magnitude (time), by powers of seconds | |
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| Negative powers | 10−44 s | ... | 10−25 s | 10−24 s ... 10−22 s | 10−21 s ... 10−19 s | 10−18 s ... 10−16 s | 10−15 s ... 10−13 s | 10−12 s | 10−11 s | 10−10 s | 10−9 s | 10−8 s | 10−7 s | 10−6 s | 10−5 s | 10−4 s | 10−3 s | 10−2 s | 10−1 s |
| Positive powers | 1 s | 10 s | 102 s | 103 s | 104 s | 105 s | 106 s | 107 s | 108 s | 109 s | 1010 s | 1011 s | 1012 s | 1013 s |1014 s | 1015 s | 1016 s | 1017 s | 1018 s | 1019 s and more |
