World's Fastest Stopwatch - CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Scientists at the Vienna Institute Of Technology are #-Link-Snipped-# a new use of the CERN's Large Hadron Collider - as the world's fasetest stopwatch. The heavy ion collisions will lead to shortest light pulses ever created. These pulses are so short (billionths of a billionths of a second, 10^-18 seconds) that they can't be measured by current generation of equipments. The engineers are now developing new detectors that will be installed at CERN in 2018.

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