On 2/14/2016 11:13 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
10**-20 meter, as Dr. Mike noted, is way, way, way smaller than nano. Nano is only 10**-9. Pico is smaller but still
only 10**-12. I still can't imagine how anyone is measuring that with lasers. UV light ranges from 10 to 400
nanometers. Much worse, even, than trying to measure the size of a virus using a meter stick. Anyone got an
explanation?
I know absolutely nothing about all this. It does strike, me, as a matter of simple physics, that interference patterns
may reveal things smaller than the wavelengths of the interfering waves - I think. :-)
Why are you folks using the double asterisk, 10**-20, instead of the caret, 10^-20 as power notation? The caret is what
spreadsheets use, and thus what I've used for the several decades. I can't recall the notation for the mainframe
calculating programs I used before that. Before that, it was slide rules ...
Speculative and Curious Moose
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