Sentences with phrase «of a trillionth of a second»

The CMB preserved how space stretched and squeezed following a phenomenal expansion a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

«It's not every day that you wake up and find out what happened one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.»

After each one is born, death should follow about a hundred trillionths of a trillionth of a second later as it falls apart to produce other particles.

And that happened within a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a second.

Understanding the universe so soon after the Big Bang is an amazing achievement, but a lot of interesting stuff happened in that trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second before those ripples cascaded through the infant cosmos.

Ultimately, the most ambitious gravitational wave observatories astronomers can presently conceive might someday record the hiss of waves emitted in the first fractions of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

For example, the flash of light lasts an incredibly short time, a few tens of trillionths of a second.

This pulse is only some tenths of a trillionth of a second long and transfers energy to the electrons in the molecule, exciting them into helical motion.

In March 2014, they announced to the world that their small telescope at the South Pole had uncovered possible signs of gravitational waves produced within a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the Big Bang — potentially opening a window into a new regime of physics.

With LCLS, the laser pulses 120 times per second, and each pulse lasts as little as one - hundredth of a trillionth of a second.

THE FIRST DEFINITIVE PROOF that the universe underwent an almost unimaginably fast expansion when it was only a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old has taken the world by storm.

Then, 50 trillionths of a trillionth of a second later, the fireball cools, just as the infant universe did as it expanded, and the quarks and gluons merge once again to form protons and neutrons.

And then any Higgs particle would exist for less than a billionth of a trillionth of a second.

Such a high value of r, for instance, indicates that inflation began even earlier than some models predicted, at one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

In less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the universe popped into existence, the newborn cosmos expanded from the size of a tiny subatomic particle to roughly the size of a basketball.

ALICE's researchers calculate that each head - on collision at the LHC will spawn a speck of this quark - gluon plasma, which will hang around for less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

They should help us to hone descriptions of how, after the big bang, the universe grew from smaller than a proton into a vast expanse in less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space - time generated gravitons, gravitational ripples in space - time.

In 1980 Stanford astrophysicist Alan Guth proposed that as our universe sparked into existence, it underwent an explosive burst of growth, ballooning by a factor of 1030 or more within a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

According to Guth's theory, at one ten - millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, gravity emerged.