Word: trillionths
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...original top quarks supposedly emerged from the roiling sea of primordial radiation less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Then, as the universe expanded and cooled, they all but disappeared. Now they occur naturally only under certain conditions. To conjure them up, scientists have to re-create the fiery conditions that followed the Big Bang, not an easy task. Because the top is so heavy, only the most energetic collisions in the Tevatron are capable of producing the particle at all. In addition, this king of quarks has such an infinitesimal lifetime that its presence...
...Laboratory near Chicago report that they may have confirmed the existence of the sixth -- and last -- of the quarks, ghostly particles that are the smallest units of matter. Dubbed a top quark, the elusive particle weighs as much as a gold atom; it enjoyed a brief reign about a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. If the finding is confirmed, scientists will have validated three decades' worth of work that gave rise to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics...
...fact, TeX works like a computer programming language, except that the commands instruct the system on how to format a particular section of text rather than, for example, how to compute pi to the one trillionth decimal...