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Light propagating filmed at 10 trillion fps.

That was pretty incredible. We live in a time when humans can actually slow things down enough to watch the movement of light. I didn't expect to see that when I got up today.
 
Helix said:
That was pretty incredible. We live in a time when humans can actually slow things down enough to watch the movement of light. I didn't expect to see that when I got up today.
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It is crazy. Hell, I have one 'astro-cam' that can hit 14-80 fps, dependent on resolution, and actually seeing the amount of files 'snapped' in short order is pretty astounding.
I knew they were up there 'in the millions or so', but 10 trillion?
 
Chock Full o Nuts said:
It is crazy. Hell, I have one 'astro-cam' that can hit 14-80 fps, dependent on resolution, and actually seeing the amount of files 'snapped' in short order is pretty astounding.
I knew they were up there 'in the millions or so', but 10 trillion?
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I had no idea that they could do that now.
 
Now that is really cool, that sort of technology and application of impresses me.
 
MamboDervish said:
Meh ....
With advances in microminiaturization and optics, in a few short years my iPhone 42 will be able to do that.

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It could happen!
Just thinking of my mentioned camera, the chip itself of course 'captures' each pixel across the array.
Resolution 4656x3520. That's just shy of 16.5M pixels. So that is one separate little operation for each, compiled to one 'file' done 14 times in a second. That's about 230,000,000 pieces of image information in a second.
 
HIP56948 said:
Sounds like the Slo-Mo guys are British. Do they use the British trillion or the US trillion?
Suppose it doesn't matter, it being fast-as-hell. :)
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British and US trillion are the same thing.

A better question would be is this light travelling through a vacuum or through a medium which is slowing it down?
 
Chock Full o Nuts said:
It is crazy. Hell, I have one 'astro-cam' that can hit 14-80 fps, dependent on resolution, and actually seeing the amount of files 'snapped' in short order is pretty astounding.
I knew they were up there 'in the millions or so', but 10 trillion?
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This video is also 5 years old.
 
Well, didn't see that, but still pretty amazing.
Maybe they are up to 10 quintillion now?🤷‍♂️
 
How in the ****
 
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