"The process relies on the incredibly short pulses from the laser. These pulses last only a few picoseconds — a picosecond to a second is like a second compared to 30,000 years."
Nice bit of exposition.
Nice bit of exposition.
> 984 feet ... We oughta hang one over every programmers desk, or over their neck (:audience chuckles:), so they know what they're throwing away when they're throwing away microseconds.