What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
11M views · Jan 19, 2026 · Education
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@veritasium · 8 months ago · pinned
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@GregL-zt4xf · 8 months ago
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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@ScythLabs · 8 months ago
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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@ZackTronix · 8 months ago
“an Attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe” is the most thing that blew my mind! that’s insane!
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@ThePatente · 7 months ago
Bless all the peoples who are extremely curious. It's truly awesome.
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@codyc2411 · 8 months ago
Physics: 'Nothing can travel faster than light.' Veritasium Cameraman: 'Hold my beer.' (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4pbFcERnk&t=13">0:13</a>)
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@steroprince · 8 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4pbFcERnk&t=191">3:11</a> humans casually creating a substance hotter than the surface of the sun for 10 microseconds just to take a picture
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@tsstep2785 · 8 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4pbFcERnk&t=519">8:39</a> 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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@ChhaviMarate · 5 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4pbFcERnk&t=1155">19:15</a> I really want to see how the double slit experiment will look like in slo-mo.<br>Keep going @Veritasium !
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@prajwals8203 · 8 months ago
But did Edgerton solve the mystery of motor's misbehaving when there is fluctuation??
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@n1t016 · 8 months ago (edited)
at this framerate im still losing in cs2
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@torgrim-b9z · 8 months ago
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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