A photon’s journey through a hydrogen molecule is the shortest event ever timed
This interval was about 247 zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second
The shortest duration ever measured is 247 zeptoseconds — the time it takes for a particle of light, or photon, to get from one side of a hydrogen molecule (illustrated) to another.
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