Today I learned that a "jiffy" is not an indeterminable unit of measuring time afer all. It is, in fact, quite determinable. You do however, have to be a professor of quantum mechanics to understand it.
A jiffy is the amount of time it will take for light to travel the smallest meaningful distance known to human kind, or, if you like - the Planck Length. For those of you keeping score, that's .000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 6 meters.
In my world, its hard enough to try and understand the speed of light, let alone try and figure out how long it will take for it to travel the smallest distance about which anything can be known.
Now, I don't want to say I'm a hero... 'cause, what's a hero? But I will say this, if someone asked me how long I thought it would take for something which no matter or information can travel faster than (light) to cross the smallest measurable distance in the known universe, there is a very good chance that my initial response would be "a jiffy". And in that hypothetical scenario, I would be correct. Then confetti and candy would fall from the sky and "We are the Champions" would be playing, and Freddy Mercury would float down from super gay heaven wearing that same weird leotard except with black and white wings... and... and...
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