{"id":12323,"date":"2009-08-19T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/08\/19\/attosecond.html"},"modified":"2009-08-19T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:23:24","slug":"attosecond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/08\/19\/attosecond\/","title":{"rendered":"attosecond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know what an attosecond is. (It's 10<sup>-18<\/sup> seconds.)<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me was seeing the word used metaphorically and in passing in a general-interest news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Stress may be most readily associated with the attosecond pace of postindustrial society, but the body's stress response is one of our oldest possessions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm used to seeing words like \"millisecond\" or \"microsecond\" in that kind of context. These days, maybe \"nanosecond.\" But this <cite>New York Times<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/science\/18angier.html\">article<\/a>'s author has skipped all the way from nanoseconds past picoseconds and femtoseconds to attoseconds.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: That article also has a headline I particularly like: \"Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop.\" And I like the phrase \"chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what an attosecond is. (It&#8217;s 10-18 seconds.) What surprised me was seeing the word used metaphorically and in passing in a general-interest news article: Stress may be most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}