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n. - One quintillionth (10^-18) of 1/60th of a minute.

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  • The actual process used by the scientists, called attosecond absorption spectroscopy, is about as fiendishly complicated as its name, so let's take this slowly.
  • Their method involved using a stroboscope and a laser that uses attosecond pulses to film electron motion.
  • Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond.
  • P.S. The initial state of the universe was not “structured” in the way it was even an attosecond after expansion, much less the way it is today.
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