About us

Our company, founded in March 2006, provides tools for analysis, thin film deposition, measurement and control applications from market-leading suppliers. We focus on research, development and process control in the materials science, energy research and semiconductor markets. We have a significant breadth of product offering, including the World market leading thin film metrology company k-Space Associates, Inc. and our 15+ year relationship has included 9 Distributor of the Year awards.

Products and services

k-Space Associates, Inc.

In-situ thin film metrology

European sales partner.

Staib Instruments GmbH

Products for RHEED and surface analysis

UK & Ireland sales partner.

Thought for the month

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 1870 – 1924

Contact

RTA Instruments Ltd
Highfield
Back Lane,
Monks Eleigh
IP7 7BA
United Kingdom


E: sales at rta-instruments.com

Monday 4 October 2010

But why bother?

A recent paper (arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1009/1009.4698v1.pdf) addresses the issue of an infinitely expanding universe and that in such a scenario even the most unlikely events will eventually occur - and not only occur, but occur an infinite number of times. One solution to this problem, according to Bousso et al, is that time itself will eventually end. Then there would be a finite number of events that occur, with the improbable events occurring less often than the probable events. The physicists have attempted to calculate the probability of when time will end. In two of these scenarios, time has a 50% chance of ending within 3.7 billion years. In two other scenarios, time has a 50% chance of ending within 3.3 billion years.

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