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0:00 How does a strobe work?
3:28 The Man Who Stopped Time
8:43 Spatial vs Temporal Resolution
13:09 1 Trillion FPS
16:56 Watching Light Move
19:04 The Straightest Building in the World
24:19 How to get 1 Quadrillion FPS
28:25 Seeing Electrons
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A huge thank you to Jim Bales, Kim Vandiver, Jamie Chelel and everyone at the MIT Edgerton Center for walking us through Edgerton’s demos – https://ve42.co/EdgertonC
Thank you to Tech Imaging for letting us use their Photron Nova S16 high-speed video camera – https://ve42.co/TechImg
A massive thank you Nikhil Behari, Ramesh Raskar and MIT’s Camera Culture Group for having us over – https://ve42.co/CameraCulture
Check out Prof Raskar’s original trillion FPS coke bottle video here – • Visualizing video at the speed of light — …
A big thank you to Anagh Malik and the University of Toronto Computational Imaging Group.
Check out Anagh’s work here – https://ve42.co/Malik2024
Finally, a huge thank you to Aaron Groff, James Cryan and everyone at SLAC for letting us visit their electron accelerator – https://ve42.co/SLAC
Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — a body of water that covers more than 160 million square kilometers. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators managed voyages like this without the help of modern navigational aids. How did they do it? Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva explain.
Lesson by Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva, directed by Patrick Smith.