What Happens 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. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter ▀▀▀ 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 - https://youtu.be/EtsXgODHMWk 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: Charge density simulation video by Gilbert Grell, Alicia Palacios, and Fernando Martín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 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