"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
08/02/2013 at 09:47 • Filed to: science
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"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
08/02/2013 at 09:47 • Filed to: science | 9
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! nerdlingers have recorded the passage of light through a plastic bottle. Watch the video if you require more meat with your scientific potatoes. I think we can agree that the logical conclusion of this technology would be to dispute photo-finishes at horse races.
GRIVLET - Proud of Cobalt
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 09:49 |
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holy shit. this is cool.
PowderHound
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 09:53 |
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And that is the coolest thing I will see in months
CalzoneGolem
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 10:00 |
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I thought the logical conclusion for the use of technology was always military?
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Kake Bake
> CalzoneGolem
08/02/2013 at 10:01 |
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Yust making a yoke.
Joe_Limon
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 10:11 |
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What is really mind blowing is that what you see here isn't the light while it's in the bottle. It is light, after it has already exited from that point in the bottle. Where you see the light, in reality it no longer exists.
Kind of like all the stars in the sky who have burnt out by now, but we can still see the light of.
Eric Siedlecki
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 10:14 |
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"And it's a dead heat! They're checking the electron microscope. And the winner is...number 3, in a quantum finish."
"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it."
Group B-raaaaaaaaaap!
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 10:17 |
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CKeffer
> Joe_Limon
08/02/2013 at 10:19 |
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......it's entirely too early to be thinking about things like that, but yes that does make it even cooler, in a mind fuckery sort of way.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 10:47 |
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If the photons are moving through the bottle, how can the camera see them?
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Kake Bake
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
08/02/2013 at 10:57 |
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It's pointed at the bottle.
ttyymmnn
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 11:00 |
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Reporter: "Nothing travels faster than light."
Do we know that for a fact? Or is light simply the fastest thing we've measured to date? Is there some immutable law of physics that says nothing could possibly go faster? I always try to stay away from absolute statements, because somebody will usually come right along and prove me wrong.
Paul, Man of Mustangs
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 11:07 |
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Apparently, one of the commercial uses for this is measuring the ripeness of tomatoes.
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Kake Bake
> ttyymmnn
08/02/2013 at 11:08 |
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Paraphrased from Wikipedia: The speed of light is the fastest rate that has been experimentally established at which objects with positive mass can travel.
When energy or information travels faster than the speed of light, it creates a time paradox. This means that certain frames of reference that would otherwise occur one-after-the-other in time could have their order reversed; potentially traveling back in time.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 11:10 |
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But if the photons are moving through the bottle, they are not moving into the camera.
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Kake Bake
> Paul, Man of Mustangs
08/02/2013 at 11:10 |
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When will the government stop kowtowing to big Agra?
We need this technology to settle bar bets!
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Kake Bake
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
08/02/2013 at 11:11 |
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Well, the bottle reflects light.
ncasolowork2
> Kake Bake
08/02/2013 at 12:42 |
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Mind blown