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Let’s talk about frame rates.

Movies shot on film are shot at a 24-frames-per-second. This means that 24 slightly different images flash every second, but your eyes cannot detect the gaps between the images.

Video in the US displays pictures at 29.97-frames-per-second (NTSC) because the frequency of our energy source (alternating current, AC) is 60 Hz. 

The energy source in most of the rest of the world is 50 Hz, so their video frame rate is exactly 25 fps (PAL/SECAM)

The Planck time is 5.39 × 10-44 seconds. According to quantum physics, no unit of time can be shorter than that. Consequently, the frame rate of the universe is 18.55 septillion Frames Per Second.

Do you need a more detailed explanation?

1 Plank length is 1.616199 × 10^-35 Metres. The speed of light is approximately 300,000,000 m/s. There are approximately 6.18735688 × 10^34 planck lengths in 1 metre. Therefore light traverses 1.85 x 10^43 Plank lengths per second, so the frame-rate of the universe is 1.85 x 10^43 Frames Per Second.

Is it NTSC, PAL, SECAM? You can perform a simple flicker test with your smartphone camera. Turn it on and aim it at the light source in question while looking at the image captured on the screen. If you see a series of dark and light bands traveling slowly across the screen, your light has flicker.

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“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. Marie-Laure can sit in an attic high above the street and hear lilies rustling in marshes two miles away. She hears Americans scurry across farm fields, directing their huge cannons at the smoke of Saint-Malo; she hears families sniffling around hurricane lamps in cellars, crows hopping from pile to pile, flies landing on corpses in ditches; she hears the tamarinds shiver and the jays shriek and the dune grass burn; she feels the great granite fist, sunk deep into the earth’s crust, on which Saint-Malo sits, and the ocean teething at it from all four sides, and the outer islands holding steady against the swirling tides; she hears cows drink from stone troughs and dolphins rise through the green water of the Channel; she hears the bones of dead whales stir five leagues below, their marrow offering a century of food for cities of creatures who will live their whole lives and never once see a photon sent from the sun. She hears her snails in the grotto drag their bodies over the rocks.”

- Anthony Doerr, "All the Light We Cannot See"

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