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These lasers deliver energy beams in pulses that last for about a trillionth of a second.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

The Big Bang theory postulates that the universe was inflated from a microscopic speck in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, at a temperature of trillions degrees centigrade.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

These experiments created burning plasmas that lasted just a trillionth of a second, but that was enough to be considered a success, Zylstra said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2022

New research has created microscopic antibiotic factories in droplets that measure a trillionth of liter in volume.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2021

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

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson