"“Lemme see...okay...think of the smallest amount of time that you can. Really small. So tiny that a second would be like a billion years. Got that? Well, the cosmic quantum tick...that’s what the abbot calls it...the cosmic quantum tick is much smaller than that. It’s the time it takes to go from now to then. The time it takes an atom to think of wobbling. It’s—” “It’s the time it takes for the smallest thing that’s possible to happen to happen?” said Lobsang. “Exactly. Well done,” said Lu-Tze. (p. 152)"