ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding

Okay kiddo, let's imagine you have a piece of candy that has a picture on it. If you were to try to take a picture of that candy, you could use a camera to do it. But sometimes, the camera can't take a picture fast enough, and the picture comes out blurry. That's kind of like when we try to "sample" a signal. A signal might be sound or light or something else that we want to measure, but sometimes we can't measure it fast enough and we get a blurry picture.

So, scientists have come up with a way to take pictures of signals, like sound or light, even if our sampling isn't very fast. It's called "multiple sub-nyquist sampling encoding." That's a fancy way to say that we take lots of little measurements of the signal and put them together to make a bigger picture.

It's like if we take lots of pictures of the candy, from lots of different angles. Then, we can put all those pictures together to make a 3D image of the candy that looks really clear and detailed. Scientists do the same thing with signals -- they take lots of little measurements, then use those measurements to make a clear and detailed picture of the signal.

So, even if we can't measure the signal very fast, we can still get a really good idea of what it looks like by taking lots of little measurements and putting them together. It's kind of like when you do a puzzle -- you might have lots of little puzzle pieces, but when you put them all together you can see a clear picture of what the puzzle is showing.