A housefly's wing flap lasts about 3 ms, a honeybee's about 5.
10^-6 Seconds
1.8 μs were subtracted from the Earth's day as a result of 2011 Japanese earthquake.
10^-9 Seconds
When a jellyfish detects prey, it releases a poison-filled cell within 700 ns, firing a dart with an acceleration of up to 5 million g: one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdom.
10^-15 Seconds
The peaks in a light wave arrive at your eye a few femtoseconds aprat.
10^-18 Seconds
The shortest unit of time yet measured: 2010 German scientists measured an interval of 12 as.
10^-43 Seconds
The time it takes light to travel the Planck length, 4x10^ -35 meters. The universe began 1 Plank time after time zero.
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