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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
LISA should be able to peer back in time much earlier — to one -
trillionth of a
second after the Big Bang.
LISA is designed to detect faint gravity waves from extremely far away — gravitational shock waves that were emitted less than a
trillionth of a
second after the instant
of creation.
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.
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.
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.
In fact, I reckon that if a 911 were fired through the arse
of a Cayman at close to light speed by a larger version
of the Large Hadron Collider and a photograph taken a
trillionth of a
second after the impact, the result would look pretty much like the Ruf CTR3.