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About these units
Femtosecond (fs)
A femtosecond equals 10⁻¹⁵ seconds, a staggering scale where fundamental molecular motions occur. Chemical bonds vibrate, break, and rearrange on femtosecond timescales. Ultrafast spectroscopy—pioneered by Ahmed Zewail, who won the Nobel Prize for this work—uses femtosecond laser pulses to "freeze" molecular reactions and observe them in real time. Femtosecond lasers allow extraordinary precision in surgery and microfabrication, producing minimal heat diffusion and ultraclean cuts. At this scale, time ceases to be a continuous blur and becomes granular in terms of molecular motion, giving rise to the field of femtochemistry and revolutionizing our understanding of reaction dynamics.
Year (Julian) (y (Julian))
A Julian year is defined as exactly 365.25 days, reflecting the structure of the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. This calendar assumed a fixed year length with a leap year every four years. Although revolutionary in its simplicity, the Julian year overestimates the actual tropical year by about 11 minutes, causing the calendar date to drift slowly relative to the seasons—an issue that accumulated to more than 10 days by the 16th century. Astronomers still use the Julian year as a standardized unit for long-term timekeeping, especially when expressing stellar motions, orbital periods, and cosmological timescales. Its simplicity and fixed length make it ideal for scientific definition even though it is obsolete as a civil calendar.