4 ms·

Wow, this is wild. billionths of a second?!

• scrlk 1y ago
  I'm reminded of Grace Hopper's famous nanoseconds lecture: https://youtu.be/gYqF6-h9Cvg?t=78 https://youtu.be/gYqF6-h9Cvg?t=78
  • LosAlamosNerd 1y ago
    Oh, I haven't watched that before.
  • HPsquared 1y ago
    1 ns * c = 1 ft, to put in perspective: 7 μs * c is 1.3 miles. (Protip: just type "7 μs * c in miles" into Google)
    • chasd00 1y ago
      7 μs is also the time it takes light to travel about 1,400 Ariana Grandes.
      • rkomorn 1y ago
        In which direction? Presumably side to side?
        • jjk166 1y ago
          Due to relativity the length of Ariana Grande will appear to change such that all observers agree on the same speed of light.
          • rkomorn 1y ago
            But... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_to_Side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_to_Side
• BearOso 1y ago
  Not quite. The article says hundreds of nanoseconds, which would be in the 10 millionths range. Or if you take the title literally, 143ns per image. That's in line with the fastest CCDs, so not unimaginable.
• mapt 1y ago
  "Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons... Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.
  • bombela 1y ago
    Anything to avoid using the proper units, you wouldn't want the Americans audience to be enlightened wouldn't you.
    • stavros 1y ago
      What irks me is that they could have abbreviated "7mths of a second" to just "7us" while ADDING clarity!
      • jjk166 1y ago
        7ms is 7 milliseconds. Unfortunately 7μs is difficult to type and there isn't a good universal way to abbreviate it in ascii.
        • stavros 1y ago
          Eh, 7us is fine.
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