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#1 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:00 pm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 130814.htm

time to save the whales?

#2 Post by **MBH** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:48 pm

Very Interesting (if a little impractical at the moment).

I confess I did need to confirm that femtosecond is a valid unit of time. 1,000,000,000,000,000th of a second

#3 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:55 pm

well its significantly bigger than planks time
aprox 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Planck times =1 femtosecond
and as of 2006, the smallest unit of time that was directly measured was on the order of 1 attosecond or a thousandth of a femtosecond
yes im a science nerd

#4 Post by **Scurra** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:57 pm

If you really were, then you wouldn't be using all those noughts

#5 Post by **MBH** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:10 pm

More 'power' to your typing finger

#6 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:01 pm

WHAT are they on?

#7 Post by **LAT** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:00 pm

Their typing hands?

#8 Post by **chazzie** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:11 pm

Bunnylump wrote: WHAT are they on?

I suppose the subject of "Just for the Trekkies" - should have made us steer away???

#9 Post by **Laura** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:21 pm

Bunnylump wrote: WHAT are they on?

Another planet, clearly.

#10 Post by **clvrlad** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:17 am

well ok plank time is aprox 10^-43 seconds
and conceivably the smallest possible time that's measurable
its worked out by how long it would take light to travel the plank length
and no im not going to start discussing quantum theory....

not unless you insist anyway

#11 Post by **MBH** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:45 am

So his 'time' measurements must be inversly proportional to his 'distance' measurements, otherwise it makes a mockery of the phrase....

.... Thick as two short Planks.

#12 Post by **Bunnylump** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:11 am

Totally irrelevant to whatever it is you're talking about (because I don't know what that is and I'm not totally convinced you do either

):

when I was at school one of the teachers wrote a report for a girl in my year which read:
4"x2"x10"x2.

Think that summed her up nicely!

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