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In 2010, Zurek and his collaborator Jess Riedel calculated that within a microsecond, photons from the sun will imprint the location of a grain of dust about 10 million times.
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Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2026
The transistor can detect image changes in just 100 microseconds, much faster than human perception.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
The winner is the person who can hold on to this trajectory the longest, ideally cashing out in the microsecond before the randomized formula shoots the line perilously downward.
—Jasper Craven, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2026
The transistor can detect image changes in just 100 microseconds, much faster than human perception.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
The winner is the person who can hold on to this trajectory the longest, ideally cashing out in the microsecond before the randomized formula shoots the line perilously downward.
—Jasper Craven, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microsecond. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˌmī-krō-ˈsek-ənd 
-ənt
: one millionth of a second
Medical Definition
microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˈmī-krō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one millionth of a second
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