Glimpsing Worlds Too Fast For the Eye
When a water droplet gently drips into a puddle, it is subsumed in a spectacular — and almost invisible — series of steps. The droplet dances along the water surface, breaking into smaller and smaller parts until it is completely absorbed.
A show called Time Warp for the Discovery channel shows events in slow motion using extremely high speed cameras, like a water drop. When asked whether there are any events that are too fast to film, they replied:
They would love to show how a crack propagates through a pane of glass, but Mr. Lieberman said it breaks at about 60,000 inches per second, outpacing the highest frame rates that produce a usable image quality.
It doesn’t surprise me that there are events that are too fast to capture, but I never thought it would be glass cracking. Fascinating.
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