[ExI] Macroscopic Superposition

[The Avantguardian]

--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 03:18 PM 9/24/2008 -0700, Stuart wrote:
> 
> >. . . then at exactly 2 seconds, would the LED be on or
> off?
> 
> No. On and off. But how small is the smallest interval you
> can toggle?

Apparently, the smallest interval depends on the wavelegth of the laser which makes sense from a Heisenberg perspective as well. As of June 2008, that would be 80 attoseconds (1 attosecond = 10^-18 of a second) for UV. The record for visible light is 1.6 femtoseconds.

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14172-fastestever-flashgun-captures-image-of-light-wave.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14172

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/LarisaTuchinskaya.shtml

Stuart LaForge

"See them clamber, these nimble apes!  They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss."- Friedrich Nietzsche