On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > It's probably neutral. But I do have one question: can you foresee the > scientific community moving to a finer resolution than nanoseconds in our > lifetimes?
I think we're already there. Even just in radio astronomy new arrays like ALMA which operate a terahertz frequencies are looking at picosecond or possibly femtosecond timing accuracy (ALMA operates at ~1000 times higher frequency than MeerKAT so they need ~1000 times more accurate timing). E.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/29/alma-radio-telescope-chile-astronomy Schiavo Simon _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
