For example, the flash of light lasts an incredibly short time, a few tens of trillionths of a second. (scientificamerican.com)
The inflationary theory proposed by Alan Guth of MIT, to explain how the universe behaved in the first few trillionths of a second after the Big Bang, has been shown to be consistent with recent data derived from WMAP. (discovermagazine.com)
Each collision creates a subatomic fireball that mimics the first trillionth of a second of the universe's existence. (discovermagazine.com)