 almightybob1
Male, 18-29, Europe
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Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:35:09 AM
3.0 x 10^8 meters/second = speed of light
Only in a vacuum. |
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 drawman61
Male, 50-59, Europe
1401 Posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:48:52 PM
wtf am I supposed to be seeing? Without an explanation it's completely lame. |
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 i-am-evil
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
437 Posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:38:03 PM
wtfrock's posted link is more interesting because it details the practical applications of this technology and how the camera actually works. |
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 photomstr
Male, 50-59, Canada
767 Posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:57:48 AM
the camera does not have a 1 trillionth of a second shutter speed. It takes many photos shot over hours to combine into something that mimics a fast camera, they sure fooled you idiots . . . |
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chance13
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
220 Posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 8:37:32 AM
It is NOT the speed of light.
3.0 x 10^8 meters/second = speed of light
1 x 10^12 exposures/second = speed of camera
Is the camera fast? Damn fast. Does it come close to the speed of light? No, no it doesn't.
Is the video GOD AWFUL BORING? Oh yes. |
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 a1butcher
Male, 40-49, Canada
4783 Posts
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 8:35:08 AM
So if I'm not mistaken... this camera and footage is faster than the speed of light? How is that even possible?
Incredible!! |
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 duffytoler
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
5220 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 11:08:02 PM
And it only took several minutes to do it!
the video is captured over several minutes by repeated and periodic sampling.
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2184 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 8:22:22 PM
so this is a major accoplishment for science and everyone here is just pooting on it like its nothing... ITS THE dratING SPEED OF LIGHT!!! AND ITS BEEN CAPTURED ON CAMERA FOR drat SAKE |
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 jerkymeat7
Male, 18-29, Canada
10 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 5:20:06 PM
for all of you that dont know, that is a beam of light captured at over a trillion frames per second. its the slowest slowmo cam to date. the fact that you can actually see the beam of light move like that is increadable. |
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 robosnitz
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2752 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 4:08:17 PM
B-B-B-BORING! |
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 freddyferret
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
9843 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 4:06:03 PM
3:17 of my life, gone
After about :20 I jumped ahead a couple of times and saw that it was all the same. I spared myself at least 2 minutes of crap that would put me into a coma instead of curing my boredom. |
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 mcssls
Male, 40-49, Western US
377 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 3:39:36 PM
3:17 of my life, gone |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16966 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 3:34:22 PM
@FatNinja01: I MUST shoot you down before you hit 20K!!
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 Chocolatex
Male, 30-39, S. America
86 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 1:49:56 PM
All I know is now I want to drink a Coca Cola for some reason. |
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drips
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
775 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 1:24:26 PM
It would have been better if instead of stupid music they had a voice-over explaining the what and the how. |
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 SnoopyBG
Male, 18-29, Europe
463 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 1:07:14 PM
That's an amazing achievement poolords. I would really be proud of MIT if I were you. |
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 Revolutioniz
Male, 18-29, Western US
914 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 1:06:51 PM
@ilikelogic ummm there were experiments with gases that can slow light to a stop, but all it's really doing is the gas molecules catch and release the light trillions of times, this video isn;t an accurate measurement of light speed, because as soon as it starts you can see the light, which means it traveled through the container, and to the camera before it even began moving down the bottle. pretty sure the bottle has that gas, i cant remember the name. besides, why would students at MIT use a coke bottle? |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 12:49:11 PM
Pew pew |
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Ilikelogic
Male, 40-49, Europe
292 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 11:51:16 AM
To all haters:
How about reading or listening or watching the news?
(Hint: MIT captures light (speed of light!!) on film) |
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 elhowell
Male, 18-29, Asia
168 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 11:47:48 AM
lol. angry steelgrid? it's a demonstration of technology.. calm down |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 10:34:05 AM
Maybe next time tell us what it is in the description? Fool.
Other than that it was pretty cool. |
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wtfrock
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 10:30:55 AM
Ok before this thing gets down voted to hell, I think this post is related to this article.
MIT creates imaging system that captures images at one trillion frames per second |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16966 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 10:28:46 AM
IT IS: composite film of photons going through a bottle of liquid (water I think) because light (photons) slows down in dense material.
It's not ONE photon though, it hundreds of fuilmings of them shooting through the water, combined to make an image. |
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 Steelgrid
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
2685 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 10:25:49 AM
"I thought this was awesome. This is a big step for science!"
What the fvuck are you talking about? Its a laser light, passing through plastic in front of a slo mo camera. WHere, in any of that, is a step?
Random people just blurting out random poo, kinda like half the picture posts on this site now. |
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PhotoKing
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
523 Posts
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Friday, December 16, 2011 10:25:12 AM
i was waiting for the bullet or an explosion. scifi? in what film? is it sponsored by coke? |
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