A zeptosecond is the smallest unit of time ever measured by humanity. It takes 246 zs for a photon of light to fully traverse a hydrogen molecule.
In that time, the 250 Exahash bitcoin network computes ~60 double-sha256 hashes.
Great find. I wasn't expecting it to be THIS small:
A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second.
That's a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1, and it looks like this:
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001.
🤯🤯🤯
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It gets way cooler: the charge on an electron is ~160 zeptocoulombs.
The realization that, as a species, we are now capable of moving energy deliberately around at the subatomic scale blows my mind.
This is new for us.
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