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You can measure less than 1/10 of a second but you cannot see it in your wristwatch. Why?

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The persistence of vision on our eye is 1/10 of a second. This means that any image formed before that time is not recognized. That’s why, we can measure less than 1/10 of a second but we cannot see it in our wristwatch.

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