What If You Keep Slowing Down?

What happens if you keep slowing down time? Sponsored by Hostinger – Make today your Day One and visit https://ve42.co/VE10. Use code VERITASIUM for an additional discount.

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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

The paper on the final charge density simulation is available here – https://ve42.co/Grell2023

Check out the AlphaPhoenix billion FPS camera here – • I built a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera t…

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References: https://ve42.co/StoppingTimeRefs

Visual References:

Edgerton images courtesy of © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum – https://ve42.co/MITMus
Bullet Shadowgram available via CC-BY-SA-3.0 on Wikipedia – https://ve42.co/Shadowgram
Various SLAC shots via – / @slac

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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean? – Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva

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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.

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How Maps Made You Biased

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Macaws in flight over the Amazon rain forest.

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Warsaw – Old Town Snow Version.

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Icelandic Independence Day #nordic #comedy #denmark #iceland #history #language

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Early morning sunlight touching the medieval Market Square in Wrocław, Poland.

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Colours of Manchester

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Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting

Right now, you’re breathing in. As you inhale, air rushes past millions of sensory receptors, activating the part of your brain responsible for smell. And yet, there’s one scent you’ll never notice: the very nose you’re breathing through, because humans are smell blind to themselves.

Today, Professor Hannah Fry and VSauce’s Michael Stevens explore the mechanics of perinasal chemosensation, otherwise known as smell.

They explore how the Victorians sidelined the sense, why we’ve underestimated it ever since, and whether tuning out most of odours our noses detect is a flaw, or a powerful strategy that’s central to survival

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Brock’s Photographic Journey (@bar44.bsky.social). | Tiny mushrooms in the sand, BayOcean, Oregon

Tiny mushrooms in the sand, BayOcean, Oregon #Photography #Mushrooms #Fungi #Oregon 📷🍄‍🟫

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