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• n  one part in a trillion equal parts
• s  the ordinal number of one trillion in counting order

• The past 15 years of human history are the temporal equivalent of those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and vanish in a trillionth of a second, but in that .
• For one thing, the new observations bolster the theory of inflation: the notion that the universe went through a period of turbocharged expansion before it was a trillionth of a .
• It can discern one trillionth of a part of a foreign substance in anything presented to its wrenching beam.

• one-trillionth

News & Articles

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• Speedy Magnetite Switch Makes Blink of an Eye Seem Poky
  Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University have created an experimental switch that goes between on and off in one trillionth of a second. This was done by blasting samples of magnetite with a laser to rearrange their atomic structure. The scientists then used ultrabright, ultrashort X-ray pulses to measure how long it took for the switch to go from off to on.
  July 30, 2013 - TechNewsWorld.com
• Scientists Demonstrate Ultra-Fast Magnetite Electrical Switch
  Flipping an on-off electrical switch in the material takes a mere 1 trillionth of a second, thousands of times faster than silicon-based transistors, U.S. researchers say.
  July 30, 2013 - PC Magazine
• Faster PCs, Thanks to This?
  An optical laser pulse (the red streak) shatters the ordered electronic structure (blue) in an insulating sample of magnetite, switching the material to electrically conducting (red) in one trillionth of a second.
  July 29, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Charles Bennett in BBSNews
  We can now distinguish between different versions of what happened within the first trillionth of a second of the universe,said WMAP Principal Investigator Charles Bennett of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "The longer WMAP...
• David Spergel in MSNBC
  During this growth spurt, a tiny region, likely no larger than a marble, grew in a trillionth of a second to become larger than the visible universe,said WMAP researcher David Spergel, also from Princeton University.