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Thanasis Kinias

@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)
@Archnemysis @johncarlosbaez

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Space Catitude 🚀

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_u

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!

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