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Thanks for your explanation. This makes a lot of sense.

A carrier signal is generated (as high as 10^27) [1] - modulated by some observable - and then recorded and analyzed. The highest resolution event that will be visible in the waveform will be 1/(2f) where f is the frequency of the carrier signal. The 1/2 factor is due to the sampling theorem [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli... [2] https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-highest-frequency-that-ma...



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