Lazer fusion test

Mind Boggle: there's the ever nonplussing 'infinity,' 'eternity,' but "... the beams delivered their energy in pulses lasting a little
more than 10 billionths of a second." !!! Atoms yes in space, but billionths of a second in time? Beyond Wow! of the test itself!

in reference to:

"However, the beams delivered their energy in pulses lasting a little more than 10 billionths of a second."
- BBC News - Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes (view on Google Sidewiki)