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Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by IanCal »

CPLX wrote: post #70
lawlessone wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kinda is, but as far as i know they're actually taking the multiple photos separately of different pulses and editing them into one video.

Is there another method of making a video?

Yes, normally to video a car going past I'd take a series of photos as it goes past once.

The approach here would be to take a photo of a car, then drive the car past again from the start and take another photo slightly later, then again, and again driving it past hundreds of times.

They split this up even more, but I think the basic analogy holds to show the key difference.

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by jcims »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #15
thanatos_dem wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here’s a video from 2011, but it’s only at 1 trillion FPS using the same laser pulse approach - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSqFWcb4rE Also, the music is pretty cringey, so I’d just leave it muted...

Watching this confuses me as to the timing of it all... if the conceit is that we're watching the bundle of photons move through the bottle that's because the photons from the source are hitting the camera, right? So is it the light moving through the bottle + the travel time to the sensor? Should refraction and reflection across the surface cause a lot of weird visual interference (as the bottle's size is no longer…

I had this similar realization when I watched that video from 2011 the first time around (hard to believe it was 7 years ago).

It also gave me this odd sense of blindness, in that I cannot actually see what's in front of me, only what literally interacts with my retina, almost like it's made of tastebuds for light. Still weirds me out when i think about it.

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by irisli »

CPLX wrote: post #70
lawlessone wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kinda is, but as far as i know they're actually taking the multiple photos separately of different pulses and editing them into one video.

Is there another method of making a video?

The team behind the video of the coke bottle has a TED talk that explains it in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA

Edit: oops I misread your comment

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by stestagg »

CPLX wrote: post #70
lawlessone wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It kinda is, but as far as i know they're actually taking the multiple photos separately of different pulses and editing them into one video.

Is there another method of making a video?

taking one video of one pulse, and not editing it

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by jastanton »

ourmandave wrote: post #67

“It’s an achievement in itself,” says Jinyang Liang, the leading author of this work, who was an engineer in COIL when the research was conducted, “but we already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!” Just getting started... o_O

Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by TylerE »

jastanton wrote: post #75
ourmandave wrote: post #67

“It’s an achievement in itself,” says Jinyang Liang, the leading author of this work, who was an engineer in COIL when the research was conducted, “but we already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!” Just getting started... o_O

Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.

Imagine expirmental physics. Being able to watch things like explosions in super minute detail. Watching light propogate.

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by simcop2387 »

jastanton wrote: post #75
ourmandave wrote: post #67

“It’s an achievement in itself,” says Jinyang Liang, the leading author of this work, who was an engineer in COIL when the research was conducted, “but we already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!” Just getting started... o_O

Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.

I imagine that at least the techniques and underlying technology would be incredibly illuminating inside particle colliders.

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

jastanton wrote: post #75
ourmandave wrote: post #67

“It’s an achievement in itself,” says Jinyang Liang, the leading author of this work, who was an engineer in COIL when the research was conducted, “but we already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!” Just getting started... o_O

Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.

Years ago I saw an atomic explosion film taken with nanosecond frames and the comment was, it wasn't fast enough since each frame showed entirely different images

Re: Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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Post by neom »

TylerE wrote: post #76
jastanton wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question, what can be seen at one quadrillion fps that 10 trillion cannot already see? This question is out of pure ignorance and wonder, like "Why would you ever want to move faster than a horse". But this is at a scale I just cannot think in anymore.

Imagine expirmental physics. Being able to watch things like explosions in super minute detail. Watching light propogate.

"Watching light propogate"

Gave me shivers.

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