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On the moon, a smaller body where the gravitational pull is much weaker, time moves more quickly and unevenly: Lunar time gains about 58.7 microseconds per day compared to Earth’s time, though even this can vary, depending on the altitude and longitude where lunar clocks may be located.
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Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Time moves quicker on the moon Time moves quicker (by 58.7 microseconds) every day on the moon relative to Earth because of the different gravitational field strength on the moon, the memo said.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Time on the moon moves 58.7 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster each day than on Earth, according to the White House memo.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
Sitting still, a muon decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino in 2.2 microseconds.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
If anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023
In terms of latency, the T700 showed a 13.9 percent improvement over the Samsung drive (31 versus 36 microseconds), according to PCMark 10 Storage results Tom's recorded.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
As Ars Science Editor John Timmer reported previously, FRBs involve a sudden blast of radio-frequency radiation that lasts just a few microseconds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2023
The system can sync clocks down to microseconds, or a millionth of a second, Julian Onions, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, said in a 2022 YouTube video explaining NTP.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Time moves quicker on the moon Time moves quicker (by 58.7 microseconds) every day on the moon relative to Earth because of the different gravitational field strength on the moon, the memo said.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
Time on the moon moves 58.7 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster each day than on Earth, according to the White House memo.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
Sitting still, a muon decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino in 2.2 microseconds.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
If anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023
In terms of latency, the T700 showed a 13.9 percent improvement over the Samsung drive (31 versus 36 microseconds), according to PCMark 10 Storage results Tom's recorded.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
As Ars Science Editor John Timmer reported previously, FRBs involve a sudden blast of radio-frequency radiation that lasts just a few microseconds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2023
The system can sync clocks down to microseconds, or a millionth of a second, Julian Onions, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, said in a 2022 YouTube video explaining NTP.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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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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