Scientists have created a blazing-fast scientific camera that shoots images at an encoding rate of 156.3 terahertz (THz) to individual pixels — equivalent to 156.3 trillion frames per second. Dubbed SCARF (swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography), the research-grade camera could lead to breakthroughs in fields studying micro-events that come and go too quickly for today’s most expensive scientific sensors.
SCARF has successfully captured ultrafast events like absorption in a semiconductor and the demagnetization of a metal alloy. The research could open new frontiers in areas as diverse as shock wave mechanics or developing more effective medicine.
Fuckin dope
I was doing some napkin math for how many femtoseconds there are between each frame and how that compares to Planck time but this response does a better job capturing how cool this is.
A femtosecond is 10^-15 seconds. Tera Hertz frequency is equivalent to a period length of 10^-12 second, a pikosecond.
So with 156 tera Hertz a frame is around 6.4 femtoseconds.
Planck time is around 10^-43, so still some way to go until we reach the clock speed of our universe :)
Hope I did that right!
Damn this sounds really impressive, especially the possibilities this could offer in medicine.
Must have been really expensive to develop!
Slo-mo guys just show up with a fat stack of hundos
Assuming they’re still around. The whole Rooster Teeth getting shut down by Warner Bros a few weeks ago.
Slo mo has nothing to do with RT I thought? Always assumed that was Gavin and Dan’s creation, and was around even before Gavin showed up to RT.
Not sure, but they’re part of the rooster teeth productions. Didn’t know how the situation is going to affect them.
After seeing the one where they slam Dan’s face with a ball and you see his skull moving under his skin I realized there can be entire fields of study around insanely fast cameras. What we see in real time doesn’t even compare. Also the one where Gav shows how CRTs work is still my favorite.
And if you were to watch it at 60Hz you would need 82+ years to watch that one second. Hope you know exactly where you’re wanting to look or can scrub it really fast!
Edit: I can’t math. It is 82,000 years.
Gavin Free intensifies