Wednesday, September 10

Big Bangs

10th September
It’s Big Bang day over at CERN in the Jura, I haven't quite got to grips with it yet although this cool video I came across on Jacob Russell’s site helped.

Our Speedy Camera see post below is just like having our very own particle accelerator - OK it’s nothing like - but it does show things you can’t normally see. There was a lot of insect filming with it the last couple of days and that was all great but...

Obviously it would've been madness not to have a go at filming other fast things; explosions, smashing stuff, spillages – and someone had the idea of throwing a dart into a water-filled balloon. At 9,000 frames per second you see the dart piercing the balloon, ripping it into 3 sections, leaving a ball of shining jelly water hanging in the air. The dart’s silhouette cuts through the water, slicing up the wobbly blob which explodes into a millions of sparkly drops – bloody brilliant.

4 comments:

  1. Just nipped over from Belgianwaffling, of which I am also a fan. I read and enjoyed a few posts and am in AWE of your banner and the other collages I saw. Are they your own? Fabulous. I'll be back soon (and often) to see how you're getting on.

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  2. well thank you ksv, the collages are what I do, when I should be making a call to try and sort something out

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  3. lulu, what chance of posting some of those delicious sounding slow mo whatsits on you tube??? And giving us the link of course.

    With ksv on the collages. You have a load of talent.

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  4. Hi Ernest, nice to see you, I'd love to put some footage up, it's all taking up massive storage space on the computers at the moment and has to go through a bit more processing.

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