1 second
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 100 seconds and 101 seconds (1 second and 10 seconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.
- shorter times
- 1 second – the second is the metric standard unit for time; approximately the same as a human cardiac cycle
- 1 second; the amount of time it takes light in a vacuum to travel 299792458 metres or approximately 300,000 km (~186,282 miles)
- 1.2096 seconds – a VMS microfortnight
- 1.26 seconds – approximate time it takes light to travel between Earth and the Moon
- 9.77 seconds – world record for the men's 100 m sprint event (Asafa Powell, 2005 and Justin Gatlin, 2006)
- longer times