00:00Here are things that only exist for one second. So element 118, also called Oganesson, is the
00:04heaviest element on the periodic table, but has a half-life of just .89 milliseconds. It's created
00:09in a particle accelerated by smashing atoms together, but then it decays instantly once
00:13it's held. For about one second at the exact moment of sunset or sunrise, there's a green
00:17flash meteorological phenomenon in which the blue light scatters and the red light dips below the
00:22horizon, making it nearly impossible to catch live. Similarly, Bailey's Beads is a two-second
00:26phenomenon, only available during a solar eclipse, in which the moon covers the sun and
00:29creates this visual. Red sprites are brief, large-scale electrical discharges high above
00:33thunderstorms, often with blue jets appearing below them, both of which are notoriously difficult to
00:38capture. Humans have something called iconic memory, which exists for about a half a second
00:41when you turn off the light in a pitch-black room in which you can still see the room for a bit before
00:45it goes dark. And finally, the stock market has micro-prices that exist for just milliseconds that
00:49humans can never technically see or access, but algorithms always do. Pretty cool, right?
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