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Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.
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George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Most notably, its coherence time of 72 microseconds enables more complex quantum operations before decoherence occurs.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
That gave us an indication that lighting spark during the first tens of microseconds is not driven by the electric field in the cloud.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
For approximately the first microsecond of the Universe after the start of the hot Big Bang, there were no protons and neutrons, but rather only a quark-gluon plasma, tightly coupled to all the other forms of matter, antimatter, and radiation that existed back then.
—Big Think, 6 Mar. 2025
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George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Most notably, its coherence time of 72 microseconds enables more complex quantum operations before decoherence occurs.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
That gave us an indication that lighting spark during the first tens of microseconds is not driven by the electric field in the cloud.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
For approximately the first microsecond of the Universe after the start of the hot Big Bang, there were no protons and neutrons, but rather only a quark-gluon plasma, tightly coupled to all the other forms of matter, antimatter, and radiation that existed back then.
—Big Think, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microsecond. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˌmī-krō-ˈsek-ənd 
-ənt
: one millionth of a second
Medical Definition
microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˈmī-krō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one millionth of a second
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