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About these units
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 Its simplicity and fixed length make it ideal for scientific definition even though it is obsolete as a civil calendar.
Picosecond (ps)
A picosecond equals 10⁻¹² seconds. At this timescale, even light travels only about 0.3 millimeters, making picoseconds vital in advanced optics, ultrafast laser systems, and femtochemistry. Picosecond lasers enable precision cutting in medical devices, microfabrication, and semiconductor processing. They also allow scientists to study vibrational modes of molecules and rapid electron transitions in materials. In telecommunications, picosecond precision is necessary for characterizing optical fiber dispersion, jitter, and photonic switching. At such rapid intervals, the boundaries of classical physics begin to blur, leading toward quantum mechanical interpretations of time and energy.