Don't know if this has been posted yet, but I thought it was pretty fascinating.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-12/trillion-frame-second-camera-captures-photons-moving-through-space-slow-mo

Quote :

"...MIT researchers have built a camera with a visual capture rate of one trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to watch photons travel the length of a one-liter bottle..."

12/13/2011 8:17:12 PM

So so awesome. Need to focus this country on research that isn't so bent on quarterly profits and phones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg#t=1h12m30s

12/13/2011 8:49:11 PM

^ Awesome video link - half way through and I'm really enjoying it. I completely agree with you, and I would love to see a lot more research-for-the-sake-of-research than research-for-the-iPhone378

12/13/2011 9:40:01 PM

im going to bookmark that video for later

i love hearing Neil deGrasse Tyson speak about any and everything

12/13/2011 9:52:01 PM

Ahh, pop science. Dumbing down scientific research to ridiculous hyperbole for decades.

12/13/2011 9:53:03 PM

would you rather it be 'dumbed down' or ignored?

12/13/2011 10:30:59 PM

didn't read the link yet

sounds way badass

12/13/2011 10:32:18 PM

Dr. Tyson actually does a very good job balancing between sophisticated explanations and simple language to communicate science.

Here are some more for you guys; he is very awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztLZcvtVIo4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RExQFZzHXQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOoTRE1HUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEeBPSvcNZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlHOAUIIuq0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRZQQ_eICo
^Might be my favorite one so far

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sidLNXlTyU4
^series of lectures, goes to I believe 13 or 14 episodes

[Edited on December 13, 2011 at 10:32 PM. Reason : messed up a link]

12/13/2011 10:32:23 PM

Well, at least pop science is entertaining.

12/13/2011 11:11:56 PM

this has implications on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

12/13/2011 11:21:30 PM

^ How so?

12/14/2011 11:38:28 AM

Figured I'd add some more interesting shit. Simplistic but this guy seems legit. Probably other good ones of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRh75B5iotI

12/24/2011 11:39:29 PM

God with an elitist butt hurt post? Not in this thread.

12/25/2011 12:06:10 AM

Quote :

"So how do they produce the 2-D video below? (Note: watch the video and they’ll explain it.) They take a whole lot of one-dimensional images and then stitch them together. In order to gather one trillion FPS video, you have to be filming an event that is exactly repeatable."

Scene 1: Take 101,083

12/25/2011 8:41:28 AM

lol

12/25/2011 11:09:27 AM