The nucleus of an atom is tiny-only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom-but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom's mass.
They are tiny, septillions of times smaller than an atom – and they explode with the power of a trillion supernovae in a trillionth of an octillionth of a second.
The laser energy used to move the muon up to that unstable state can be used to calculate the radius of the helium nucleus, which is 1.67824 femtometers—one femtometer being one quadrillionth of a meter.