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• (General American)IPA^(key): /ˈkwɛk.toʊˌsɛk.ənd/

quectosecond (pluralquectoseconds)

2. (metrology) AnSI unit oftime equal to 10⁻³⁰seconds. Symbol:qs

   Alternative form:qs(symbol)

   Holonyms:rontosecond <yoctosecond <zeptosecond <attosecond <femtosecond <picosecond <nanosecond <microsecond <millisecond <centisecond <decisecond <second <decasecond <minute <hectosecond <kilosecond <hour <week <megasecond <month <year <gigasecond <century <kiloannum,kiloyear,millennium <terasecond <mega-annum,megayear <petasecond <giga-annum,gigayear <exasecond <zettasecond <yottasecond <ronnasecond <quettasecond

   • 2020 July 13, Dan Robitzski, “Physicists Say This Is the Smallest Unit of Time That Could Exist”, infuturism.com‎^[1]:

     The number is bafflingly small. The largest possible value this fundamental unit of time could be is one thousandth of aquectosecond, according to research published last month in the journalPhysical Review Letters. That’s ten to the -33rd power or, asLive Science helpfully put it, just one millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. And that’s just the upper limit, based on the performance of the best atomic clocks we have. In the abstract world of mathematical theory,Live Science reports the absolute smallest unit of time could be yet another 100 billion times shorter.

   • 2021 June 6, FirmDig, nonsenseis, “Time.h”, inreddit.com‎^[2]:

     Can it representquectoseconds though? I need my time to be really precise and nanosecond just doesn't do the trick.

   • 2022 March 19, Howard Ludwig, “Is there a unit of time smaller than an attosecond?”, inquora.com‎^[3]:

     Within SI there is the zeptosecond: 1 zs = 0.001 as = 10⁻²¹ s, and the yoctosecond: 1 ys = 0.001 zs = 10⁻²⁴ s. The CIPM has prepared draft resolutions submitted to and to be voted on by the CGPM in 2022–11, one of which involves four additional scaling prefixes to SI, two of which are relevant to the question. These prefixes will not be official unless and until approved by the CGPM, so there is a small risk that I am jumping the gun: the rontosecond: 1 rs = 0.001 ys = 10⁻²⁷ s; thequectosecond: 1 qs = 0.001 rs = 10⁻³⁰ s.

   • 2023 February 24, eladl, “What is smaller than a yoctosecond?”, inmath.answers.com‎^[4]:

     quectosecond rontosecond plank time zeptosecond

   • 2023 May 20, Bruce, “The Work of the Bureau International Poids et Mesures (BIPM)”, inhttps://81018.com‎^[5]:

     You may be interested to take a look at one of the earlier uses of those two new designations, Rontosecond andQuectosecond, officially cited as such from your meetings from 15-18 November 2022 in Paris, of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) of your International Commission of Weights and Measures (BIPM) whereby you all adopted Resolution 3 making it a globally acceptable name for the range 10−30 to 10−32 of the infinitesimal scale of time.

   • 2023 August 28, EA-PLANT, MyMoose1227, “Hognose attack. How long until death?”, inreddit.com‎^[6], archived fromthe original on7 December 2023:

     386 milliseconds, 45 microseconds, 789 nanoseconds, 2 picoseconds, 456 femtoseconds, 13 attoseconds, 987 zeptoseconds, 78 yoctoseconds, 3 rontoseconds, 89quectoseconds, and 1 planck time with 3 cherries on top.

   • 2023 October 3, GamerY7, the_fungible_man, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023”, inreddit.com‎^[7]:

     nanoseconds. picoseconds. femtoseconds. attoseconds. zeptoseconds. yoctoseconds. rontoseconds.quectoseconds.

   • 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, inThe New York Times‎^[8], archived fromthe original on12 October 2023:

     “There’s plenty of space at the bottom.” So proclaimed the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, heralding the new field of nanophysics, the study of the very, very small. According to astrophysicists, one of the most exciting and fundamental events in the universe, known blandly as inflation, took only one-hundredth of aquectosecond (10^^-32 of a second) after time began to shape space-time and the particles and forces that would inhabit it. As Dr. Feynman noted, there are still shorter scales of time and distance to go before we reach the ultimate limits imposed by quantum physics: the Planck length, 10^-33 of a centimeter, and the Planck time, 10^-^-43 of a second. Both are named for the German physicist Max Planck, who made the breakthrough that led to quantum mechanics.

   • 2024, J. Martin Strangeweather,The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis‎^{[archive.org/details/the-eidetic-afterlife-hypothesis/page/n5/mode/2up?q=rontoseconds]}, Santa Ana Literary Association,→ISBN, page107:

     Do you liken eternity to an endless succession of days? That’s just your mortal perspective framing the concept. Infinite degrees of separation (picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, zeptoseconds, yoctoseconds, rontoseconds,quectoseconds, etcetera) exist between any nanosecond and its immediate successor.

   • 2024 August 12, LackingUtility, SqoobySnaq, “ELI5: How is Planck length the shortest distance possible? Couldn’t you just split that length in half and have 1/2 planck length?”, inreddit.com‎^[9]:

     Faster than that. You can find evaporation calculators online like this one. The lifetime of a black hole with a schwarzchild radius of 1 Planck length has a lifetime of 1111 Planck time, or around 10-41 seconds, which is 10-11quectoseconds. SI prefixes don’t go any smaller.

   • 2024 August 31, CDFrey1, collnska, “$5,000,000 a year but once a month you have to experience birth.”, inreddit.com‎^[10]:

     Alright, so first I needed to know how much that is in a planck, that is very important, because I say so. so, divide to a lunar year, than into a semester, than a quarantine, than month, than a lunation, fortnight, megasecond, week, day, hour, kilosecond, moment, milliday, hectosecond, minute, decasecond, second, decisecond, centisecond, a jiffy, millisecond, microsecond, a shake, nanosecond, picosecond, Svedberg, femtosecond, attosecond, zeptosecond, a jiffy (lvl 2), yoctosecond, rontosecond and aquectosecond before I got to the final answer of 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000038808 dollar per planck.

   • 2024 October 6, Mountain_Future4034, ralphonsob, “TIL that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is the smallest unit of time ever measured.”, inreddit.com‎^[11]:

     I guess u/dml997 should have spent at least a couple ofquectoseconds awake in science class.

   • 2025 September 24, ExpectedBehaviour, Silly_King3635, “What do you think will happen if you annoyed a mind. For example, like a hub mind?”, inreddit.com‎^[12]:

     How would it be possible for a person to annoy a Mind? Something capable of perceivingquectoseconds and carrying out billions of conversations at once while simultaneously simulating entire civilisations in parallel?

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