Well if someone started to technobabble things you don't really understand...you'd have to say something to pretend you do, then forget all about it when you leave...
Electrons themselves move usually rather slowly on wires (m/s is a handy unit). Electricity (and electric signals) on the other hand can be rather fast but that depends on the cabling. That 0.97c is probably near maximum but it can be less than a half of that, too.
...not that this has anything to do with the manga...
Electromagnetic waves propagate at the speed of light, but electronics we use transmit information by varying the amplitude or the frequency of the waves, and both of these change at units of nanoseconds or worse.
Not that I expect anyone to understand what I said...
unicode said: Electromagnetic waves propagate at the speed of light, but electronics we use transmit information by varying the amplitude or the frequency of the waves, and both of these change at units of nanoseconds or worse.
Not that I expect anyone to understand what I said...
Anyway... "need a time-mpilfying device"... Nitori... your genius lasts only to this extent? Make a device capable of measuring the time accurately. Calculate the time the calculations take place in the measuring device. Subtract the time it takes to calculate the exact time from the time that was measured. ->Exact time...
Subtraction or time-ampilifying... I hope we all understand which one WUOLD be the simpler... But this is Gensokyo. This is a Manga. And in defies logic on the most basic levels. 'Nuff said!
GreenDrag said: Subtraction or time-ampilifying... I hope we all understand which one WUOLD be the simpler... But this is Gensokyo. This is a Manga. And in defies logic on the most basic levels. 'Nuff said!
unicode said: Electromagnetic waves propagate at the speed of light, but electronics we use transmit information by varying the amplitude or the frequency of the waves, and both of these change at units of nanoseconds or worse.
Not that I expect anyone to understand what I said...
Actually subtraction alone won't do. The simple fact is that the 'uncertainty' of your measurement becomes too large. Every physical measurement has some degree of imperfection, some degree of imprecision. You cannot precisely measure an object's time and space, see Heisenberg's Principle on that.
E.g. the stopwatch may post 0:00:0317 +/- 0:00:0002. If the stopwatch's delay is 0:00:0316 you get 1 ms +/- 2 ms, a worthless measurement.
What you need is indeed some way of measuring more accurately, an atom clock, or in this case perhaps even a Quantum Clock, as we're talking about near-light speed objects. One metre is covered in less than a nanosecond! Which does indeed involve relativistic physics, modifying properties of light, and some complicated optics.
As well as having a near-perfect vacuum tube to send the light signal through, perturbations by air molecules would cause another unacceptably large error margin. And a lot of other laboratory-grade equipment.
TLDR: Like Nitori said: This is harder than it seems.
I see...Is that so?Is that so?While that's fine for a normal person, if one tries to time those who run at close to speed of light, like Youmu-san and Tengu-sama, the electricity takes too long to pass through the circuits, so we will need to count that as well.Sorry.
World of LightspeedFrankly, this stopwatch is not suitable for recording the time!!
Followed after Yuyuko.Isn't Miss Youmu in a bad condition today?
Note: Patchouli's OrbThis stopwatch is operated on electrical circuits.The speed of electricity is the same with light.That runs through the circuit boards in here, and as the end result...... Hey, is everyone listening?In short, the very act of displaying the calculated value numerically as units of time, in and of itself, ends up taking time!There is also a limit to the clock's frequency, which prevents us from getting an accurate time record.Therefore, on top of developing a hyper-lightspeed integrated circuit, until we develop a clock specially with a much longer digital display...Haa...
In other words, the gadgets we have here cannot measure the time...
Listen well.