{"id":1608,"date":"2008-04-02T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:41:23","slug":"300802-femto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1608","title":{"rendered":"30|08:02  Femto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blink, <\/span>no,\u00c2\u00a0too slow by far,\u00c2\u00a0not F-16 fast,\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>throttles full open and engines at full rip-roar blast,<\/div>\n<div>still not fast, not ultra-fast laser fast,<\/div>\n<div>moving an atom&#8217;s breadth, dancing in femtoseconds,\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>weaving and cutting and welding and building,<\/div>\n<div>erecting great monuments on the surfaces of\u00c2\u00a0semiconductors,\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>entire civilizations on the backs\u00c2\u00a0of things too small to be perceived.<\/div>\n<div>In Michigan 300 terawatts flex through titanium and sapphire,<\/div>\n<div>primed to divide cell from cell, bond implants to bone,<\/div>\n<div>change the limits of time and freeze electrons in motion,<\/div>\n<div>actions so small as to be nearly infinite,<\/div>\n<div>not unlike the minutiae that drew me to you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Based on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10918079\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">an article on femtosecond lasers in The Economist<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">.)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blink, no,\u00c2\u00a0too slow by far,\u00c2\u00a0not F-16 fast,\u00c2\u00a0 throttles full open and engines at full rip-roar blast, still not fast, not ultra-fast laser fast, moving an atom&#8217;s breadth, dancing in femtoseconds,\u00c2\u00a0 weaving and cutting and welding and building, erecting great monuments on the surfaces of\u00c2\u00a0semiconductors,\u00c2\u00a0 entire civilizations on the backs\u00c2\u00a0of things too small to be perceived. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-pW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}