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Lasetron to Produce Zeptosecond Flashes of Light

Posted by timothy on from the yes-those-are-real-words dept.

bofh31337 writes: "Nature has an interesting story about the Lasetron. In theory, creating very short flashes of light, using high-powered lasers, you would be able to see inside atomic nuclei."

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  1. Re:Zeptosecond? by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It's already informally been proposed, but interestingly enough, a Google search reveals that they are starting to be used.

    Hey... that's how these things start. I just hope they formalize it rather than stripping it away the way they did with terms for quarks.

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