No Time too Small for Physicists

No Time too Small for Physicists

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Chin-Tu Chen (left) and Henry Frisch examine electronics boards in the Positron Emission Tomography laboratory at the University of Chicago. Photo by: Lloyd DeGrane

Physicists are trying to discover smaller and smaller units of time. This is useful in high-energy experiments and medical imaging. And, it gets them closer to understanding what happened at the birth of the Universe.

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