Comment Re:TFA says "18 microseconds", not "18 seconds" (Score 4, Informative) 127
> What's seven orders of magnitude between friends?
Still out by an order of magnitude
Anyway, "very short" (as the original article says) in the context of particle physics has often meant measurements of the order of nanoseconds (say, nuclear bomb testing measurements) or even much much small for big bang (Planck time, etc).