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. ▀▀▀ 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 ▀▀▀ 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 — one trillion frames per second 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 - https://youtu.be/IaXdSGkh8Ww ▀▀▀ 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 - https://www.youtube.com/@SLAC ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, Anton Ragin, armedtoe, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Blake Byers, Bruce, Data Don, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, David Tseng, EJ Alexandra, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, gpoly, Hayden Christensen, Ibby Hadeed, Jeromy Johnson, Jesse Brandson, Jon Jamison, Juan Benet, KeyWestr, Kyi, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Mark Heising, Marti Paull, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Bush, Michael Krugman, Moebiusol - Cristian, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Robson, Sam Lufti, Shalva Bukia, Sinan Taifour, Tj Steyn, Ubiquity Ventures, Vahe Andonians, wolfee ▀▀▀ Writers: Gregor Čavlović, Casper Mebius & Derek Muller Producer & Director: Gregor Čavlović Presenter: Gregor Čavlović Editors: Jack Saxon, Peter Nelson & Trenton Oliver Additional Editors: James Stuart & James Horsley Animators: Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, Andrew Neet, Emma Wright & Rokas Viksraitis Illustrators: Jakub Misiek, Kathryn Chan, Grace Nemanic, Nataly Zhuk & Isaac McRee Camera Operators: Michael Cimpher, Jesse Chandler & Gregor Čavlović Researcher: Aakash Singh Bagga & Gabe Strong Thumbnail Designers: Abdallah Rabah, Ren Hurley & Ben Powell Production Team: Josh Pitt, Matthew Cavanagh, Anna Milkovic, Gabe Strong, Sulli Yost & Katy Southwood Executive Producers: Casper Mebius & Derek Muller Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images, Storyblocks Music from Epidemic Sound

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@veritasium

Make today your Day One. Head to https://ve42.co/VE10 and launch your online success.

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@GregL-zt4xf

I spoke with Dr. Edgerton around 1988. In 1987, he published a book, “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”. I was captivated by a particular photo of an atomic bomb explosion, captured with his Rapatronic camera. I wanted to buy an original print. As this was long before the Internet, I called Directory Assistance for the Boston area and there was a “Harold Edgerton” who lived in Cambridge. “I’ll try that one,” I told the operator. His wife answered the phone. After confirming this was the “Dr. Edgerton of MIT,” she hollered for Harold, who—long retired—was gardening out back. I spoke with him for about five minutes. Not until many years later did the significance of the man become apparent to me.

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@n1t016

at this framerate im still losing in cs2

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@ScythLabs

this is what ADHD is like, dude was tryna fix motor power fluctuations and suddenly he's become a full time photographer

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@prajwals8203

But did Edgerton solve the mystery of motor's misbehaving when there is fluctuation??

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@can10203040

8:09 the solution for nighttime photography was just to strap on a huge ass flash to a plane

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@JathraDH

Props for shouting out Alpha Phoenix. I had seen both of his videos ages ago and was wondering if you would mention him.

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@0xLostInCode

I love how cartoonish Edgertons solution to military problem was. "Need to photograph a bigger area? Build a bigger strobe!"

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@tsstep2785

8:39 imagine being a German troop at Normandy on night patrol and then it’s suddenly daytime for a fraction of a second. Wake up in the morning there’s landing crafts outside

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@denelson83

26:47 - That molecule is 4-aminophenol, used for, appropriately enough, developing film.

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@torgrim-b9z

As a VFX artist this is funny to see, they're basically running a raytracing renderer in real life, shooting camera rays and sampling surfaces multiple times

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@najaabelwh

From hand-held cameras to 3.2 kilometers long cameras.

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@Sokovizimalka

9:45 ghost effect of a card seems to be produced by a gun flash actually. Fascinating

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@codyc2411

Physics: 'Nothing can travel faster than light.' Veritasium Cameraman: 'Hold my beer.' (0:13)

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@thellamamarketer

19:50 The title "Worlds straightest object" has since 2017 been given to just some random guy

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What If You Keep Slowing Down?

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