German experts measured the shortest period of time

German experts have measured the shortest period of time which is only 247 zeptoseconds.

This time measurement was made by observing a photon travel the distance (53 picometers) from one end of a hydrogen atom to the other, the shortest time measurement in human history to date.

Earlier, the record for the shortest measurement of time was also set by German scientists, which was 850 zeptoseconds. The new record is 3.4 times shorter.

Let us explain that a zeptosecond refers to “one thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second”.

This period of time is so short that if we consider a zeptosecond to be a second, the duration of our common “one second” would be 31,700 billion years (thirty-one thousand seven hundred billion years)…that is, the current age of our universe. 2,365 times more than (13 billion 80 million years)!

The latest achievement of the shortest time measurement was made jointly by scientists from Goethe University Frankfurt, the Deutsche Electron Synchrotron Accelerator (DESY) Hamburg and the Fritz Haber Institute Berlin.

Although the experiment was essentially the same as the one carried out in 2016, the previous measurement used helium atoms and ultraviolet radiation, while the new experiment allows for even shorter time measurements by bouncing X-rays on hydrogen atoms. Made.

Details of this research have been published online in the latest issue of the research journal Science.

It should be noted that most of the important and fundamental phenomena of nature occur in a very short time. This is why measuring short to short periods of time is important to us.

In 1999, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Professor Dr. Ahmed Zowel of Egypt for his key role in “femtochemistry,” which for the first time made it possible to observe any chemical reaction at ten thousandths of a second. As short as possible in trillionths.