{"id":44103,"date":"2016-03-07T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=44103"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:10:11","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-long-is-a-jiffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-how-long-is-a-jiffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Long is a Jiffy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/periodic-table-clock?source=blog_uk030716\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44105 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uk030716.jpg\" alt=\"uk030716\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got a minute? Would you believe that a \u201cjiffy\u201d refers to an actual unit of time? Originating in the late 18th century as slang for lightning, the word was co-opted by physical chemist Gilbert Norton Lewis to describe the amount of time it takes for light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum. Needless to say, it\u2019s faster than the blink of an eye, at about 33.3564 picoseconds. Given that lightning&#8217;s visible radiation travels at the speed of light, jiffy\u2019s leap from nickname to nanosecond-splitting speed is a natural one. Not coincidentally, Dr. Lewis also created the now-familiar word <em>photon<\/em> to describe a unit of light\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-03-particle.html\" target=\"_blank\">be it particle or wave.<\/a> Now, if it took you more than the minute requested to read this post, you might want to work on increasing your reading speed\u2026by a jiffy or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/periodic-table-clock?source=blog_uk030716\" target=\"_blank\">Periodic Table Clock <\/a>\u00a0| $45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating fact at the speed of light. Blink and you&#8217;ll miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":44106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[484,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44103"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44478,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103\/revisions\/44478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}