Sentences with phrase «fraction of a second ago»

In the experience of anger, we have the sense of the anger of a fraction of a second ago welling up into the present, exacting some degree of conformity with the past.

The aching in my tooth a tiny fraction of a second ago is my aching now.

Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy locates it in clear consciousness there - now in the place where the tooth's aching occurred a fraction of a second ago.

Not exact matches

Gravitational waves result from «inflation» of the early universe, an exponential expansion of space in the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago.

Since then, the scientists have been taking a closer look at this remarkable form of matter, which last existed some 13 billion years ago, a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

If confirmed, the undulating «gravitational waves» would amount to near - proof of the Big Bang theory known as inflation, and their magnitude would reveal exactly how energetically the universe inflated 13.8 billion years ago, when, according to the theory, it grew from a speck in a fraction of a second.