O.K., the following article is not for any Obama supporters, and just a few, select McCain adherents, so most of you should put the paper down, grab a beer and watch 13-year-old Chinese gymnasts pretend to be 16.

Scientists believe they have discovered the shortest interval of time, ever. Researchers use short impulses of laser light to produce images of electrons actually exiting an atom and recording the event to within 100 attoseconds. An attosecond is one quintillionth (10 to the power of minus 18) of a second.

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