stackyFACTSHumans invented a word for a unit of time so infinitely short that you will literally never be able to experience it. Light itself only travels about one foot during a single nanosecond. We use it primarily to measure the processing speed of computers and to wildly exaggerate how fast we will finish our current mundane task.
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