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March 17, 2004
Attometer
Economist.com | Small-scale physics
Story of scientists who measured attometer (that's 1-billionth of nanometer or 1/100,000,000,000,000,000 meter) and attogram when trying to measure the energy of an electron and weight of virus.
"By refining the system further, he expects to be able to weigh a zeptogram—a thousandth of an attogram. Move over nanotech, it seems that zeptotechnology is just around the corner."
Posted by minwoo at March 17, 2004 11:45 AM