What is the fastest event (shortest time duration) that can be measured with today's technology?

Question

How is this done?

Answer 1

Your lovemaking.

Answer 2

Just how fast an event is depends somewhat on your point of view. In nature around us there are various physical events that occur on time scales from the yoctosecond (10-24 second) to the exasecond (1018 second). In the time it just took your heart to beat once, the computer on the desk next to you completed about one billion clock cycles, whereas the electron of a hydrogen atom could have circled its proton about 1 quadrillion (1015) times. On the other hand, that very slow heart beat is actually quite fast and fleeting if one considers it relative to the 500 quadrillion (500 x 1015) second lifetime of our universe. Within this tremendous range of time scales, science and technology, which are constantly improving, determine how accurately different events can be measured or inferred.

Answer 3

well, by using methods of mathematics used by Max Plank and other scientist in their time and now also, we can find out the shortest time duration of an event which is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001of a second.but if you want the latest technology then hear this:

in 2001 scientist devised a clock which uses light waves to set itself and it is only one second late in 15 billion years.

thanks for the question.

Answer 4

Ahmed Zewail of CalTech won a nobel prize in physical chemistry using lasers to analyze certain chemical reactions at the femto second level!!

A femto second is .000000000000001 or (1x10^-15) seconds.

These kinds of methods involve modern spectroscopy.

I would imagine faster analysis has been reached by now, but I dont really know. Here is just one example.

Answer 5

Visit http://tycho.usno.navy.mil for capabilities of the cesium clocks used to set the world's time standard. It is ableto measure down into, I believe, the trillionths of a second.

Answer 6

the time taken for the electron to circle the nuleus

by using electricity to pass((electron)) through the material

Answer 7

try not buying u r wife an anniversary gift...the following event wud just abt be measurable.. .wid 2days tech.