Second
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Take the
second
example: "Awesome job!" Someone accomplishing his life-long dream: awesome!
It takes about a tenth of a
second
for your perception to be created.
And a tenth of a
second
doesn't sound very long, but it's a long time in normal behaviors.
If you're moving just at one meter per second, which is fairly slow, then in a tenth of second, you've moved 10 centimeters.
What will the world look like in a tenth of a
second?
To see those traces, our detector, with 150 million sensors, acts like a really massive 3-D camera, taking a picture of each collision event - that's up to 14 millions times per
second.
In the collisions between two protons at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, billions of particles and antiparticles are produced every
second.
But just a
second
later, most matter and all of the antimatter had destroyed one another, producing an enormous amount of radiation that can still be observed today.
It's the
second
hour and time for him to be in court with a sturdy audience of clients to applaud his rhetoric and hiss at his opponent.
For each of these two people, we then increment n by 1. So, in the first trip through the loop, we update n from zero to 1, on the
second
trip through that same loop, we update n from 1 to 2. And so, by this algorithm's end, n is 2, which indeed matches the number of people in the room.
The
second
way is like this.
The
second
type, spin, involves an object rotating, or turning on its axis in place.
Having one type, such as colored hearing, gives you a 50% chance of having a second, third, or fourth type.
Now let that sink in for a
second.
This massive cataract carries roughly 116 times more water per
second
over its edge than the Congo River's Inga Falls, the largest waterfall by volume on land.
It takes us approximately one-fifth of a
second
to react to what we see.
By the time we see what is ahead of us and react to it - time times velocity equals distance equals one-fifth of a
second
times 25,000 miles per hour equals 1.4 miles - we would have gone past it or through it by over a mile.
So, she's now falling from 290 feet, instead of 300 feet, reaching the speed of 173 feet per
second
just before impact, not counting air resistance.
Every
second
you waste on changing into your superhero costume and flying up to her height, her head is getting that much closer to the pavement!
Running speed depends on how much force is exerted by the runner's legs, and according to Newton's
Second
Law of Motion, force is the product of mass times acceleration.
So, while you're typing, typing, typing, maybe really fast, like 60 words a minute, the CPU is fetching and executing billions of instructions a
second.
Yes, billions every second: instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more.
First, you have to be going eight kilometers a
second.
The
second
problem: If you're going that fast, yes, you would orbit the Earth and come back where you came from, but there's a lot of air in the way, much less people and things.
The point is that just like the
second
hand on a clock divides one minute into sixty seconds, with each
second
just as long as every other second, the beat divides a piece of music into little fragments of time that are all the same length: beats.
Do you change your mind about him based on this
second
encounter, or do you go with your first impression and write him off?
As a
second
example, imagine an allied group of nations cooperatively infiltrating the computer systems of an enemy nation's nuclear warship.
So this is the
second
of those dangerous numbers, the strength of dark energy, and explaining it requires an even more fantastic level of fine-tuning than we saw for the Higgs field.
This summer, the LHC began its
second
phase of operation with an energy almost double what we achieved in the first run.
But if, in two or three years' time, when the LHC switches off again for a
second
long shutdown, we've found nothing but the Higgs boson, then we may be entering a new era in physics: an era where there are weird features of the universe that we cannot explain; an era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly forever beyond our reach; an era where we will never be able to answer the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
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