[dr_lew]

They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.

Milliseconds ??? You might as well say they lasted only for centuries.

OK, now somebody tell me they actually did last for milliseconds. What do I know?

[eclecticEel]

I got the feeling that the author didn’t have a clue regarding the subject to which she had been assigned. The way she was throwing around terms like “millisecond” and “microsecond” - I’m not certain if she knew that these words have actual, unambiguously defined meanings.