Word: hundredth
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...L.B.L. team at 200 femtoseconds, which are millionths of a billionth of a second. How fast is that? Well, in little more than a second, light can travel all the way from the moon to the earth, but in a femtosecond it traverses a distance that is but one hundredth the width of a human hair. "This sort of time scale is almost impossible to imagine," exclaims L.B.L. director Charles Shank, who helped pioneer the technology...
Murnane was one of six featured scholars lecturing during the second day of a three-day event marking the Ed School's hundredth anniversary...
...Manchester astronomers to focus on one particular pulsar -- and convinced them that a planet whirled around it. The pulsar spins on its axis three times a second, raking the earth with a beam of radio waves each time. But, says Lyne, periodically "the pulses would arrive about one- hundredth of a second earlier than they should, and then, three months later, they would be one-hundredth of a second later...
...wire, it generates an electromagnetic field that exerts forces on surrounding objects. For many years, scientists dismissed any suggestion that such forces might be harmful, primarily because they are so extraordinarily weak. The ELF magnetic field generated by a video terminal measures only a few milligauss, or about one- hundredth the strength of the earth's own magnetic field. The electric fields surrounding a power line can be as high as 10 kilovolts per meter, but the corresponding field induced in human cells will be only about 1 millivolt per meter. This is far less than the electric fields that...
...Charles Stuart's hate campaign. Even the national media were all too eager to sensationalize the killing of a white pregnant woman and her unborn child by a "savage" Black. Other murders that day, such as the slaying of James Moody, a Black man, did not receive one one-hundredth the press coverage...