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and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory (RAM). A picosecond is one quintillionth 10-18 of a second and is a term used in photon research. And to affirm that time is sometimes used to indicate distance we find that in light/length research length and distance are sometimes measured by 'time' taken by light to traverse it. For example length of a virus is 1 femtosecond, width of a pit in a CD is one thousandth of one trillionth of a second, the distance that sound travels in air in 1 second is one millionth second, 300 thousands kilometers equivalent to 7.5 rounds of the earth is 1 second, distance from the sun to Uranus is 10 thousand seconds (about 2.7 hours), and the distance of a galaxy cluster is about trillion seconds (about 30 millions years). Mind you what Ahmed Zewail also did and got the Noble prize for was that he invented a femtocamera with a shutter faster than the fast moving atom that could record fast moving atoms in chemical reaction. And I smiled and said: "by the way there is a third Sura regarding the same thing and I started reciting:
"Verily a day in the sight of your Lord is like thousand years of your reckoning" 22:47.
And mind you don't you take all this as a whim of me but a real educated thought which I am giving for real scientists and thinkers to either approve or improve'
Without saying a word and without giving me a chance to add more my friend took the Book of the translation of the Holy Koran and quietly made for the door but before he exited he turned back and asked: 'can I keep it' I smiled happily and said: 'of course you can'. And I found myself talking loudly to no body "was this the effect of the lemonade or effect of reason?" and I answered myself "it must be both". And in my mind eye I recalled papers I read about mega speed and femto second and the statement of Einstein when he formulated the theory of relativity "God is not playing dice, really every thing on Earth and Heaven is pre-calculated and predetermined, and I said to my self 'Really the more knowledgeable understand and acknowledge Divine Mysteries'.
References:
1. The Holey Koran.
2. Earth, the third planet from the sun. The complete reference encyclopedia 1994, Helicon publishing limited, printed by Griffin paperbacks, Australia. P 284.
3. Femtosecond: whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,9_gci212105,00.html
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