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sci-designer | 6 months ago

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

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mapt|6 months ago

"Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons...

Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.

bombela|6 months ago

Anything to avoid using the proper units, you wouldn't want the Americans audience to be enlightened wouldn't you.

scrlk|6 months ago

I'm reminded of Grace Hopper's famous nanoseconds lecture: https://youtu.be/gYqF6-h9Cvg?t=78

HPsquared|6 months 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)

BearOso|6 months 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.