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> The team demonstrated that this intensity interferometer can image millimeter-wide letters at a distance of 1.36 km
by 27theo 1y ago
> The team demonstrated that this intensity interferometer can image millimeter-wide letters at a distance of 1.36 km
- Calwestjobs 1y agointensity interferometer means it interferometers intensity of light. imaging technologies you mistook for imagination technologies and their gpu inside of a sega dreamcast or iphone, ipad,... 1.36 km = 0.85 miles
- abcd_f 1y agoLetters were 8 mm. > To demonstrate the system’s capabilities, the team created a series of 8-mm-wide targets, each made from a reflective material and imprinted with a letter.
- hannasanarion 1y agoI checked the paper, by "8mm wide" they mean that the letters were 8mm tall, which is a 22pt font (name-tag size), for those curious.
- mturmon 1y ago1mm at 1.36 km works out to about 150 milliarcsec (mas), if you're used to those units from astronomy contexts.
- croisillon 1y agoi'm a bit confused when they don't measure things in olympic pools and bananas for scale