3ft at a rate of 186,000+ miles per second....
They can measure a time of 0.000000003 seconds accurately?
They can measure a time of 0.000000003 seconds accurately?
That's about a foot per nanosecond or 3 nanoseconds total. That's a pretty easy measurement these days. After all you are probably running a 3 GHz computer. That means one clock cycle on your computer is about a third of a nanosecond.