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Physicists succeeded in measuring the shortest time ever to be recorded in natureNanowerk LLCThe atoms were simultaneously hit by extreme ultraviolet pulses, which lasted a further 180 attoseconds (an attosecond is one quintillionth of a second). ...and more »
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For high-precision spectroscopy and structural studies of molecules, short light flashes with lowest possible wavelength, i.e., high photon energy, are required. Currently, x-ray flashes of some attosecond (a quintillionth of a second, 10-18 s)
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In economics, hyperinflation is inflation that is very high or "out of control", a condition in which prices increase rapidly as a currency loses its value.[1] Definitions used by the media vary from a cumulative inflation rate over three years approaching 100% to "inflation exceeding 50% a month." [2] In informal usage the term is often applied to much lower rates. As a rule of thumb, normal inflation is reported per year, but hyperinflation is often reported for much shorter intervals, often per month. Hyperinflation is a devastating phenomenon. It wipes out the middle class by destroying the value of cash, savings, bonds and other paper instruments. But, how does it affect stock markets? With the Federal government just having added $5.2 trillion in Fannie/Freddie liabilities of which about $600 billion will likely default, the Federal Reserve having now polluted its balance sheet by some $700 billion worth of toxic mortgage bonds with a 41.6% default rate ($291 billion in likely defaults), an $85 billion bailout for AIG, and, now, the Administration asking for some $700 billion more to bail out financial firms, it seems clear that the winds of hyperinflation are upon us. What will be the comparative effect of hyperinflation upon index funds, like DIA, QQQ, and SPY, versus bonds and cash? Hyperinflation is not a particularly uncommon episode in human history. It has occurred in the following countries in the following countries, in the last 150 years. Weimar Republic ...
Get ready people, hard times are coming. We are about to become just another banana Republic; a second world nation. If you have any money left at all, and while it still has value, I would invest it in these things, and in the order that I list them. You will need: guns, ammo, water, food, clothing, survival equipment, gin or whiskey (for medicinal purposes), bars of gold (if you lose your guns you can hit someone over the head, and take their guns), silver (same use as gold). Collect as much junk as possible, you'll need it to make stuff for yourself, because there'll be no more imports from China; the world will be in chaos, you will have to fend for yourself. jbranstetter04 What Effect Will Hyperinflation Have? By: Avery Goodman September 22, 2008 Hyperinflation is a devastating phenomenon. It wipes out the middle class by destroying the value of cash, savings, bonds and other paper instruments. But, how does it affect stock markets? With the Federal government just having added $5.2 trillion in Fannie/Freddie liabilities of which about $600 billion will likely default, the Federal Reserve having now polluted its balance sheet by some $700 billion worth of toxic mortgage bonds with a 41.6% default rate ($291 billion in likely defaults), an $85 billion bailout for AIG, and, now, the Administration asking for some $700 billion more to bail out financial firms, it seems clear that the winds of hyperinflation are upon us. What will be the comparative effect of hyperinflation upon index funds, like DIA, QQQ, and SPY, versus bonds and cash? Hyperinflation is not a particularly uncommon episode in human history. It has occurred in the following countries in the following countries, in the last 150 years. Weimar Republic of Germany 1920 23 (1/466 billionth of starting value), Zimbabwe 2003 - Now (6 quadrillionth of the starting value and continuing to fall), Former Soviet Union 1993 2002 (1/14th of starting value), Argentina 1975 1983 (1/1,000th of starting value), Austria 1921 23 (about ¼ of starting value), Bolivia 1984 - 86 (1/1,000 of starting value); Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992 93 (1/100,000th of starting value), Brazil 1960 94 (1 trillionth of starting value), Chile 1971 73 (1/3rd of starting value), China 1947 55 (1/10,000th of starting value), Greece 1943 53 (1/50 trillionth of starting value), Hungary 1945 46 (100 quintillionth of the starting value), Hungary 1922 23 (1/4 of starting value), Israel 1976 86 (1/16th of starting value), Japan 1934 51 (1/362nd of starting value), Poland 1990 94 (1/10,000th of starting value), U.S.A. (Confederate States of America) 1861 65 (1/90th of starting value, and then, by the end of the Civil War, the Confederate Dollar depreciated to zero). It also happened in the ancient Roman Empire, when the silver and gold coinage of that day was progressively debased with base metals, in order to fund wars, giveaways to the Plebeians, and various other adventures. There are many additional examples that I have not bothered to cover here. The most studied hyperinflation episode was the early 1920s, in the Weimar Republic of Germany. At the end of the First World War, the mark to dollar ratio was trading at 9:1. By July 1921 the ratio had risen to 77:1, and prices more than doubled again by January 1922, as the ratio of marks to the dollar climbed to 192:1. By the time that the Weimar government introduced the Rentenmark in November 1923, which replaced the deflated mark, the exchange rate had risen to 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar. Germanys economic situation in the early 1920s, except for being a defeated combatant in World War I, is frighteningly similar to our own economic situation, today. We can trace the road to hyperinflation, step by step, and compare Germanys path to the path that is now being travelled by the U.S. Germany abandoned the gold standard in 1914. America abandoned the gold standard, 60 years later, in 1974. Back in 1914, the German government did not expect World War I to last very long, and the war wasnt properly budgeted, and, instead, it was financed by deficit spending. Similarly, in 2003, the Iraq War was not expected to last very long, and was financed by deficit spending. However, in comparison to the size of the German economy in 1914 and the U.S. economy in 2003, the Iraq War is a somewhat cheaper war. After WWI, Germany suffered a severe current account deficit, just like the current account deficit we now have in the USA. About 1/3rd of their deficit was generated by the need to pay gold to European allied governments as war reparations. But, the rest Link to the rest of the article: http://seekingalpha.com/article/96723-what-effect-will-hyperinflation-have
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...scientists need to do experiments with light sources whose pulses are so fast that they are measured in attoseconds -- that's one quintillionth of a second. Zenghu Chang, professor of physics, and a team of researchers at K-State have been working on a better...
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...for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom," said Lund Assistant Professor Johan Mauritsson. An attosecond is one quintillionth of a second. "We have long been promising the research community that we will be able to use attosecond pulses to film electron...
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...than our team has raised this year" btw, is that a picture of a muskox? good show man. Rather than repeat this exercise for the quintillionth time, it may be time to analogize Penn's strategery with some choice Baldrick/Blackadder exchanges: Blackadder: Am...
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...in the film. It is delivered as a term of endearment tinged with condescension. Oddly enough, we had just watched "Jaws" for the quintillionth time when I logged on to the computer and saw the news of Scheider's passing. But he was so young, I thought. The...
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...of metrics, milli is one thousandth; micro, one millionth; pico, one trillionth; femto, one millionth of nano; and atto, one quintillionth. Possible names for future car models? The Centre for Science and Environment should be happy with www.infoplease.com....
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...electronics. “The electrical energy produced by the nanowire for each vibrational cycle was 0.3 attojoules (less than one quintillionth of a joule),” Yu said. “Accurate measurements this small could not be made on nanowires before.” While the researchers...
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Environmental News Network
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...to power anything more than a nanoscale sensor. It was able to generate an electrical energy of about 0.3 attojoules -- less than one quintillionth of a joule or about 2.8E-25 kilowatt-hour. You can see on the left a diagram showing "the experimental setup...
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...electronics. "The electrical energy produced by the nanowire for each vibrational cycle was 0.3 attojoules (less than one quintillionth of a joule). Accurate measurements this small could not be made on nanowires before," said Prof. Yu. Prof. Yu said while...
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New Kerala
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...which was movable - and induced mechanical vibrations that resulted in the production of a very slight voltage (less than one quintillionth of a joule). Though they didn't experiment with them, Yu and his students believe that other vibrations, such as sound...
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...electronics. "The electrical energy produced by the nanowire for each vibrational cycle was 0.3 attojoules (less than one quintillionth of a joule)," Yu said. "Accurate measurements this small could not be made on nanowires before." While the researchers...
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...a 9 followed by 18 zeros? That’s right: 9,000,000,000,000,000,000. “We may run out of zeroes when we get there, that nine quintillionth,” Bergen said. But exactly how big is that? “You have a better chance of winning the Mega Millions two times in a row...
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