@Archnemysis Much smaller: 38 orders of magnitude shorter...

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@Archnemysis
Much smaller: 38 orders of magnitude shorter than one second. A mind-bendingly small amount of time -- not sure what to compare to.
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@Archnemysis
But maybe it helps to say 10^-38 could be expanded to "one hundredth of one billionth of one billionth of one billionth of one billionth".
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27 January at 21:55 | Open on realsocial.life

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@TerryHancock
yeah, there’s basically nothing that fast/short to compare with—even things like “light travels this far in that time” break down (10^-30 m is like a millionth of a billionth of the width of an atomic nucleus)
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28 January at 1:27 | Open on historians.social

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Looks like it's about 200,000X the Planck time -- which is "the smallest interval of time there can be", more or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_time

28 January at 2:18 | Open on realsocial.life

John Carlos Baez

@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!

28 January at 2:21 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

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