Sentence examples for billionth of a second from inspiring English sources
(For comparison's sake, 1 × 10¯²⁴ centuries comes to three millionths of a billionth of a second).
Light travels about 30 cm (12 inches) in a billionth of a second.
The interviewer, in having made the introduction, was for a billionth of a second their equal.
A nanosecond — a billionth of a second — is to a second as one second is to 30 years, roughly.
Dr Raskar and his students are working with one that fires its pulse in a thousand billionth of a second.
For paintings, he employs an ultra-violet laser that produces pulses of light a billionth of a second long.
To see this effect the Michigan team, led by Donald Umstadter, built a tabletop neodymium-glass laser and squeezed its billionth-of-a-second pulses by a factor of about 1000, boosting their power to 4 trillion watts.
The now-operational facility is capable of directing nearly two million joules of ultraviolet laser energy in billionth-of-a-second pulses to the target chamber center".
Using these pulses like flashbulbs--each one lasts less than a millionth of a billionth of a second--the researchers have traced how electrons in a gas hop between energy levels.
Confined only by its own inertia, the plasma survives for only about one-billionth of a second (one nanosecond).
