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.    From Wordnik.com.  [current.com top stories] Reference

Their method involved using a stroboscope and a laser that uses attosecond pulses to film electron motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electron filmed for the first time] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illusion of Time] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Science, and Kooky Kansans - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

If you slowed down time so that an attosecond lasted for 1 second, that second would last for 30 billion years – more than twice the age of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electrons Caught Tunnelling Out of Atoms | Impact Lab] Reference

That may be part of the reason why the group in Sweden needed to repeat the same interaction between an electron and an attosecond pulse several times and obtain many "snapshots.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Electron filmed for the first time] Reference

An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

One attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

(An attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second.).    From Wordnik.com.  [OhGizmo!] Reference

One attosecond corresponds to a billionth of a billionth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

'First we irradiated a hydrogen molecule with an attosecond laser pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

IR-assisted ionization of helium by attosecond extreme ultraviolet radiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference

Light covers a distance of less than 1 millionth of a millimetre during an attosecond.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Electron dynamics in molecular hydrogen following photoionisation by an attosecond laser pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The team used their attosecond laser to determine how ionisation occurs within a hydrogen molecule.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

They sent an extreme-ultraviolet attosecond pulse on the same path as that of the earlier, femtosecond pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [current.com top stories] Reference

A femtosecond is one millionth of one billionth of a second, so it makes it 1,000 times slower than an attosecond.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Ottawa lab shines a light into attosecond technology movie of a chemical reaction taking place at the molecular level.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Mandela’s Dream Finds Home in Nigeria] Reference

"Using attosecond light flashes, we have for the first time recorded quantum - mechanical processes inside an ionised atom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Germany, used attosecond laser pulses to clinch this latest technical feat.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

They are using attosecond -- one quintillionth of a second -- laser pulses to study electron dynamics in atoms and molecules.    From Wordnik.com.  [WIBW - HomePage - Headlines] Reference

With spectroscopy providing values for the first two quantities, the absorption of the attosecond pulses completes the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference

"NRC is incredibly proud of Dr Corkum's accomplishments in the field of attosecond science," said Dr Pierre Coulombe, NRC president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lab Canada - Headline News] Reference

Several techniques for measuring attosecond pulses have recently been developed and even include the much-needed measurement confirmation.    From Wordnik.com.  [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference

But they want to observe the electron recollision process which occurs in the attosecond time-scale -- an attosecond is just 10-18 seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Trends] Reference

Leone, "Without very short, attosecond-scale probe pulses, we could not have measured the degree of coherence that resulted from ionization.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"JASLab will enable University of Ottawa researchers in attosecond science to work in a sophisticated facility just a few streets from campus.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It's truly general and can be applied to attosecond electronic dynamics problems in the physics and chemistry of liquids, solids, biological systems, everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [current.com top stories] Reference

Thus when the attosecond probe pulse clocks the outer valence orbitals, it is really clocking the high degree of coherence in the orbital motion caused by ionization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Scientists helped drive this technology forward by developing attosecond lasers, which are benefitting diverse studies in natural sciences including the study outlined here.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

An attosecond is equal to 1/1000000000000000000th of a second (that’s 18 zeroes in the denominator).    From Wordnik.com.  [Electron filmed for the first time] Reference

It's truly general and can be applied to attosecond electronic dynamics problems in the physics and chemistry of liquids, solids, biological systems, everything. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Indispensable attosecond pulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference