This was the coolest episode of Timewarp. I had no idea that's how a drop of water looked, but it makes perfect sense.
Geoff said about 2 hours later
I second coolness
GJ said 1 day later
Guess I didn't realize this was Time Warp. I think I've watched bits and pieces of it, but it didn't catch my interest because they were doing boring time lapse stuff. Some stuff is *very* interesting, like these water droplets. The stuff that isn't is where you slow it down and find it's just a smaller replication of what you're seeing on the macro scale. Plus, I think they were covering some things I've seen a zillion times at high speed.
Now, if you were into circuit design, nothing is cooler than playing with the timings of chips where the time steps are on the side of 60KHz--that's a square wave electronic pulse triggering things on and off 60,000 times a second. Oh, did I say cool? I meant absolutely freaking mind blowing frustration when your flip-flops won't trigger right and you're pretty sure it's a timing issue...time to drag out the oscilloscope! Ahhh, those were the days.
Marc said 1 day later
Or when your professors finally tell you...oh BTW, it's not a perfect square wave, there's a very small fraction of time where 0 and 1 is indistinguishable and you need to handle that. And I'm not even talking about that silly quantum computing! :)
Time Warp sometimes has neat things, like seeing the sound barrier being broken at the crack of a whip, etc. But you're right, for the most part it is gimmicky slow motion.
GJ said 1 day later
Yeah, I know, it's technically a zigzag triangular wave and you'd best stay the hell away from that transitory period. However, if you have the right combination of resistors, this shouldn't be a huge issue. I seem to recall that so long as one of the two needed was way bigger than the other, this transition period was very small relative to the size of the actual pulse, but it's been a few years so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details--kind of like this transitory period!
Geoff said 2 days later
geeks, please, take this trapezoidal wave jargon elsewhere, your hurting my head ;)
GJ said 2 days later
Just wait till we start talking about Schroedinger's Cat.
