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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

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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

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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

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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

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Music from Epidemic Sound