Billionth
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If you toss a baseball up in the air, its wavelength is a
billionth
of a trillionth of a trillionth of a meter, far too tiny to ever detect.
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The way you measure nanotechnology is in nanometers, and one nanometer is a
billionth
of a meter, and to put some scale to that, if you had a nanoparticle that was one nanometer thick, and you put it side by side, and you had 50,000 of them, you'd be the width of a human hair.
We will find a surprising and intriguing result about our universe, and to explain my point, let me first tell you what the Higgs is about, and to do so, we have to go back to one tenth of a
billionth
of a second after the Big Bang.
And if you squeeze something hard enough, it gets hotter, and if it gets really, really fast, and they do that in one
billionth
of a second, it makes enough energy and enough heat to make fusion.
Every foot of distance you look away, or every foot of distance an object is away, you're looking back about a
billionth
of a second in time, and this idea or this notion of looking back in time has revolutionized our ideas about the universe, not once but multiple times.
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