Gregory's Server@johncarlosbaez Numbers on this scale break my brain. Is that last sentence saying, basically, 38 seconds after the creation of the universe?
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 @Archnemysis @Archnemysis  @TerryHancock Looks like it's about 200,000X the Planck time -- which is "the smallest interval of time there can be", more or less.  @TerryHancock - very much "more or less", since nobody knows what the hell is going on at such short time scales. But still, the Planck time is a good unit to measure times when you're talking about gravitational waves produced by the Big Bang!  I'm a little rusty on my scientific notation, but i think it's 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds. @Archnemysis - Not 38 seconds, 10โปยณโธ seconds. As others have said in different ways, that means the gravitational background radiation was released about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds after the Big Bang! Check out my timeline of the very early history of the Universe to put this in context: |
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No it's a fraction of a second like 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000