24 Apr
2007
24 Apr
'07
6:20 p.m.
Studies have shown that most people cannot even detect
intervals of
less than a tenth of a second.
Under some circumstances, perhaps. Delay from flipping a switch to a
light going on, for example.
But if, for example, the interval in question is the time between two
sharp clicks of sound (the specific case I'm thinking of is pool balls
colliding), I feel quite sure most people could get well below a tenth
of a second. If it's the time difference between two adjacent lights
going on, perhaps even shorter - I suspect detecting the sign of the
difference is be easier than detecting its relative magnitude, though I
haven't tried it, not even on just myself.
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