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Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Video
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| Dec 12, 2011
| Video: Melanie Gonick.
Posted on 12/14/2011 2:27:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Uploaded by MITNewsOffice on Dec 12, 2011
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects. Video: Melanie Gonick.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: hitech; stringtheory
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H/T to HardOCP
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That’s some serious slo mo.
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:31:54 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You have to spend ten years watching it.
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:33:19 PM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Perry Christmas & Happy Newt Year!)
To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; blam; Fred Nerks; NormsRevenge
fyi
Not sure I grasp how this works.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I bet this is on the Mythbusters Christmas list.
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:35:29 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Can I watch this on my dial-up connection?
;-)
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:36:51 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Gingrich quoting George Washington: ' Victory or Death')
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This should make the trick shooting shots on “Top Shot” look even more spectacular.
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:36:57 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Okay!! So now we can see how the ref’s blow a call in football!!
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:37:24 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.Maybe it will be fast enough to give definitive answers to questions that arise quite frequently from September through February every year:
Did the receiver have both feet in bounds while having possession of the ball.
And its corollary: Did the runner lose control of the ball before his knee touched the ground.
Such important decisions would benefit greatly from this technology.
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:40:02 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
("Nanny Care State" is not a Division 3 football powerhouse.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
And the referee's would use it excessively.
Games would take anoher hour to finish.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Our light source is a Titanium Sapphire laser that emits pulses at regular intervals every ~13 nanoseconds. I saw this exact thing in the 70's in Studio 54 once – fruit and everything!
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posted on
12/14/2011 2:52:33 PM PST
by
frithguild
(Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
RE: "Not sure I grasp how this works."
I just got back from shopping for kids presents. My mind is still boggled at the time it took to check the stuff out in long lines....... Interesting stuff however.
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:01:30 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not bad, but can MIT field a decent football team?
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:11:48 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the video it looks like photons travel as a wave and not as a particle.
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:15:38 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: SkyDancer
It would surely take the instant out of instant replay
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:27:41 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly")
To: NonValueAdded
Ya, you’d wind up
seeing it before it happened.
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:40:51 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
To: Huskrrrr
Not bad, but can MIT field a decent football team? Yes. This year they beat Harvard (62-12) to [(3*(log10(1000))+8].
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posted on
12/14/2011 3:56:49 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: andy58-in-nh
Ha!
Actually their basketball team is 9-1!
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posted on
12/14/2011 4:00:08 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Huskrrrr
Actually their basketball team is 9-1!That's true, but only because home baskets are scored in base 10.
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posted on
12/14/2011 4:04:27 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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