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About these units
Millennium (millennium)
A millennium is 1,000 years, a timescale that allows examination of civilizations, languages, religions, and climate eras. Millennia encompass major epochs such as the rise of agriculture, the development of writing, the spread of major religions, and industrialization. From the perspective of Earth science, a millennium is still a short interval—volcanoes, glaciers, and tectonic changes unfold over tens of thousands to millions of years—but it provides a useful bridge between historical and geological time. Culturally, millennia also carry symbolic weight, such as the transition to the year 2000, which triggered widespread reflection on long-term human progress.
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.