Does anyone else get slightly filled with dread imagining how bad it would be to be stuck at this speed. Even if you were surrounded by people you wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone. It would be so lonely. It would take you so long to move anywhere. You wouldn’t be able to let anyone know what was happening to you. To them you’d be moving at normal speed but acting strangely… 🙁
Not according to me cause nobody would have known the current 'normal' speed at which we live instead slow speed shown in video would have been the norm. Dread can only exist if we know about both & compare them.
I always imagine if I could have any power it would be time manipulation, but preferably like I can slow the world around me while I can still move at whatever speed I wish. That said moving at the same speed as a slowed down world (not this slow) would still have it's advantages
I dont think enough people give credits to Gav's sound choice in editing. The music and everything is perfect to create a scene of awe but also relaxing
dude for some of these shots, time was so slow I literally thought the video was buffering. the only thing that gave it away was the slight twinkle in the specular highlights. Absolutely amazing haha
@@Randy_Marsh yeah it's not. But i was just contributing what I can for such a good content. It was not for making the another video. Making another video is just my request
This was incredibly trippy and mind blowing. The most realistic and grounded thing that kept me sane was that when Gavin dived backwards into the pool, his nose was the last thing underwater.
Watching this back, this should definitely be submitted for some award. The idea is unique. But even without the initial concept, this video is just done so well, everything from choosing what and when to slow down to the music choice and the voice over.
I'm definitely down for a part two. Imagine the visuals we'd get with this kind of time dilation on glass breaking, firecrackers exploding, or even the flight of a bullet. Also, can't wait for Dan to be back in these videos.
Alot of the things you listed are hard to film in slowmo as simply put, the cameras are still too slow. Glass breaking they tend to need to be closer to a million frames per second rather than 90000, its speed is insane. Explosions are also difficult, they are so fast as to be again nearly instantaneous, again your looking around a million frames to get anything detailed. Bullets however, fairly slow in comparison, 90000 is enough to watch them for a good few seconds crossing an area only a few yards across (a standard 9mm is roughly 1150fps, so about 3.1 seconds at 90000frames to travel 1 ft).
It slows it down enough to basically look like time is frozen but it doesn't slow it down enough for light to stop moving around beautifully, so I could see this being used in live action JoJo part 3 recreation if such a thing was deemed absolutely necessary
Or redoing the disc spinning until it shatters. The wobble it would catch would be great. Dropping mentos into cola would be another great reaction clip.
Love everything about this--the sound, the edit, the whole attitude. It doesn't come close to the wildest or flashiest SMG videos, but I think it might well be one of the best.
Wow, I don't think I ever truly realized just how fast chemical reactions are. I mean, look at the match stick at 4:26. Every second is an hour to us but you can clearly see the chemical reactions still moving at a pace that is considerably fast. That's really dope to see
@@alikumail1985 Wah, that's so fast! If possible, it'd be kinda cool to see the reaction in a 1S=1H timeframe too but don't wanna be exploding bombs lol
This might be my favorite video you’ve made. I’m sat in awe, especially at the rain one. It felt so surreal to suddenly see it slow down to a still image, or nearly one
i feel like this is where the channel was always going to go, showing existence at progressively crazier speeds until we reach this -- its almost too slow to meaningfully quantify. a day lasting an entire decade? its on a scale that boggles the mind. it gives me a similar feeling to the way i feel about the scale of the universe and everything in it. its simply awe-inspiring
light travels at roughly 300,000,000 m/s so slowing it down to this speed, it still travels 83,333 m/s. If you wanted to see light move at say 10 m/s like stuff falling in this video, you'd have to make it 1 sec = 347 days
@@MegaLPlover Yeah exactly like Kenneth said. Because it records at such a slow speed the audio is impossible to record with it. So they design it all by themselfs. There is a video on their channel where they show this but you gotta look for it yourself
I keep coming back to this video. Especially when I’m stressed, or my anxiety gets to me. Suddenly, moments in a day are a blur and it all goes by so quickly. I feel like I never have enough time to do things. But, when you slow down, and take the moment to appreciate just a second of time, stretch it out into an hour in your head, the world doesn’t move so quickly anymore. A lot happens in a second it turns out. Appreciate it. Life comes at you fast. In a second, everything can change. Your day can flip one way or another. In a moment you can be the saddest you’ve been, to laughing hysterically. In one second, it could all be over, just like that. One second actually makes all the difference doesn’t it? Suddenly when you think of it like this, the days are longer. Some days you don’t want them to be, but when you do, it feels better. Thanks for the video Gav.
I mean, yeah. Light speed is THAT fast. If you really want to know how fast light is and how fast a camera needs to be to see the speed of light, I suggest you click here: ua-cam.com/video/7Ys_yKGNFRQ/v-deo.html And after you watched that video, click here: ua-cam.com/video/pvDJ_d1n5mI/v-deo.html
@@dukkadukkah3155 not the speed of light itself, but the speed of the tiny droplets moving enough to reflect light into the lense for one (or less than) a single frame
I've actually contemplated writing a book with this exact concept. EXACTLY this concept. A person who travels through a frozen world where there is one hour between the tick and the tock of an analog clock's consecutive seconds. I'm glad you used a bunch of water-based images, because I notice something very interesting. When something is in mid-motion, it appears stationary. But when a splash of water is in mid-motion, it appears SPARKLING. The droplets are so incredibly small that the angle of reflection of light actually changes at a noticeable rate. It's incredible. To say nothing of realizing just how fast something like a balloon pops.
I read a SCI-FI book where people could slow down their bodies, to where they were so incredibly slow that the people around them thought they were statues after decades or even centuries had passed.
Chemical reactions within the body would also slow down, not just the surroundings. Otherwise the human body would have to adapt to the such slower moving environment to sustain itself.
What Gavin does is truly art, this is a terrifying yet extremely intriguing concept to conceptualize, and you couldn't have chosen a better score, it makes you feel like this idea is a reality.
The clip of the balloon being popped and the formation of the water as it burst out made me picture our universe on a similar scale. Talk about terrifying, to picture our entire concept of existence being something relatively very small and very fast when perceived by something much much larger and older than ourselves. Or maybe that’s just fanciful thinking, but the feeling is there regardless. Artistic is the only word I’d use to describe it.
this is absolutely terrifying. the feeling of dread of being stuck at a time this slow, and the voice over and brilliant sound design matching the mood perfectly
Exactly what I was thinking about, even trying to commit suicide while stuck with perception this fast would be horrible. Agony for seconds turns into agony for hours, ideally you'd try to find something that kills you while you sleep, but even sitting there talking to a doctor trying to convince them you want out of this agony, would be agony.
It’s incredible how some events, like the pool jump, look like they’re frozen in time, while other events, like the balloon pop, still happen very quickly.
One of my favourites from this channel so far. So mind-bending to imagine time running this slow, and how much actually happens in these instants that we aren't able to observe and process
It’s really cool to see how fast popping the balloon still is! It would be cool to see a comparison of extremely fast events, like balloon popping, glass breaking, rebar reaching its Tensile strength etc. But using this 1S=1H principal, it would be so cool to put into perspective how fast some of these things truly happen compared to others
It's really fascinating to watch the rubber of the balloon split, like cloth torn along a seam, while the water is pretty much stationary. By the time the water actually gets moving, the balloon has pretty much disassembled itself already, leaving the water hanging in the air.
they did a video on glass breaking. and even at 100s of thousands of frames, it was still only a few seconds for the glass to break. this was back before they were under the scrutiny of investors. they demand quality on the videos, but to get to 100s of thousands of frames, quality goes down significantly. hence why you dont see videos like that anymore.
You know that scene where Fry has 100 coffees and everything moves like in this video? With your new robot you could literally film a version of that scene, cutting yourself in at different speeds 😂
This reminds me of a William Blake poem: "To see a world in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a Wild Flower, To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And an eternity in an hour"
Tbh even this doesn't show how fast light is, look up a light nano second (distance light travels in a nano second) and try to imagine anything else moving that far in 1/1000 of a second, other than a gamers arm
I'm sure if you were stuck at that speed you'd find things in life that are normally really really fast and then it's just normal for you at that point.
The water still looks like it's moving. Pretty slow looking movement, but seemingly noticeable. But in fact I don't think the water is moving a noticeable speed at all. It's just making incredibly minor imperceptible movements, which changes the reflection of light, and it's the light that is moving.
This is still one of the most beautiful and fascinating videos you've ever done. It's really melancholy in a way, imagining what life would be like if your consciousness was at this speed. You'd have thousands of years' worth of thoughts and reflections in the time it took you to physically age one year. It's mind-boggling.
In the German science fiction novel series "Perry Rhodan", the protagonists once entered another universe where time was running 72,000 times slower than in our universe, so about twice as slow as the slow parts in this video. The effects described in the book were pretty on point to the footage here, thank you for giving me a visual representation of it! In the novel, the protagonists were able to move at "normal speed" through the slow motion world. They had to be careful not to run too fast or they would feel the heat of atmospheric friction and they had to watch out for raindrops, because they might get a serious injury from walking into a completely stationary and unyielding drop of water...
I would really love an hour long footage of the rain falling. Maybe not quite as slow as the falling into pool but enough to see the rain drops slowly falling with some nice calm music. That'd be awesome
If you make a part 2, I’d love to see: a crack propagating in glass, glass shattering, an arc forming across a spark plug, That shrimp that punches so fast it creates bioluminescence, Close up of skin being scratched w flakes/dust forming.
this is why I find super speed such an interesting superpower, imagine being able to perceive the world like this whenever you want, still moving at a relatively normal speed from your point of view. you could climb on waterfalls before surface tension happens, you could stand on water
It is amazing to see, at this frame rate, how the physical world *almost* comes to a halt. And in the raindrops falling (from a roof, or from Gavin in the shower) display the slightest amount of randomness in their motion. Really accessing an almost forbidden realm here. Thank you guys for your amazing slow mo movies and the information you give on them.
I wouldn't mind seeing some of that super-close, super-slow footage showing: (1) Gunpowder igniting (not huge amounts, but instead, LOTS of detail of small amounts like 1 granule of gunpowder/ 20 granules/ 50 granules), (2) A fuse burning, (3) Magnesium combusting, (4+) Some of those interesting chemical reactions, like 'Elephant Toothpaste,' or 'Thermite reacting,' or even the 'Mentos + Soft Drink' thing. Any such interesting chemical reactions, really. Maybe even something simple like a super-slow, super-close image of one of those horrifically caustic acids eating its way through metals/ organics (some cuts of meat). (5) What about super-close, super-slow comparisons of a grinder eating its way through some hardwood, vs a rotary (or circular) saw doing the same? Maybe wood would be boring, maybe concrete would be better? What about grinding + cutting through metals? Showing those sparks being made.
ive actually done a photography trick that basically does that, i spray water onto a mirrorand turn all of the lights off and turn my flash on, its really cool after editing!
That's part of the trick about why relativity is so amazing. Our entire universe for all the trillions of trillions of trillions of years it has yet to live ... could just be a spark flying off a firework to some other form of life beyond our comprehension.
@@no_going_back8456 one miniscule speck in that video, say a tiny flicker of light from a drip of water, could be the birth and death of a micro-universe ... Something so fleeting and beautiful we will never know it existed. Countless worlds could have spawned vast civilizations and died out over endless eons ... but to us it was just a speck of light in a UA-cam video.
This is genuinely one of my all-time favourite videos on the platform! It's conceptually great, but the overall execution is what makes it - the music choice is great, and I really love the overall look and feel that the high-speed cameras give this video, which you wouldn't find anywhere else.
Not just a part two: this video could be an entire series alternating with your regular videos. There's practically no limit on what would be interesting to watch at this time factor.
A German comedian once said: whether a minute is short or long you can notice by whether you are waiting in front or behind of the toilet door. And in my opinion, there is no better description for how relative the length of a minute is
I appreciate the audio cues for the matchstick. That made it easier to know there was some action worth looking at even if it was very small. I’m shocked how everything seemed still at 1s=1h, except the water ballon. Wild how fast that is.
The physics of everything in slow motion really seems to change in some strange way. Just makes me think that, to us humans, everything seems to be in almost constant motion. But to very small or very fast things, objects in reality must be pretty much at a complete standstill.
@@matthewjohnson1891 That's a very interesting thought that often keeps me awake at night. Thinking how limited we are by our own perspective. I sometimes wonder what time must be like for different creatures, especially those with different lifespans and reaction times than us, like mayflies or fruit flies. Is time slower for them? Is time faster for say, giant turtles? What about that immortal jellyfish? Time is clearly not stationary for them because they can move around with time and can seemingly perceive everything with time. This is why I love science.
@@Bhez7 It's such a weird concept. Time, which is seemingly such a universal concept being different from different perspectives. Not saying I disagree wirh it. I just find it so interesting and fascinating.
This whole revelation of different timescales had me thinking: "Bloody insane." Especially with a day lasting just under a decade long at 90k FPS. Absolutely mental!!!!
I think the match was the most surprisingband impressive. A chemical reaction which we normally perceive as nearly instantaneous... stopped in its tracks! Really impressive!
It's amazing to see how much detail is packed into every moment, even at such high speeds. The match at 4:08 has so many little things going on, it reminds me of Conway's game of life.
amazing how much activity there still is in some of the shots that are slowed down to 1s=1h, this should be shown in schools just so people can see and understand more of the world we live in
Next video: • Find a foggy, flat area (or cloud) that is 10km long • Get styropyro and one of his high powerd lasers • Stand far back to get all of 10km in frame • Record 3 frames of a laser beam shooting through the atmosphere
@@SwordlessNinja If you want to shoot perpendicular to the beam, standing 10km away and a 36mm lens would do the trick. With an 18mm one, 5km would be sufficient. Shooting at an angle would even allow you to be a bit closer.
Gav, I'm sure you have millions of hours of footage like this. Idea: Get with a new-age/ambient music artist and package these slow mo clips into long form relaxation videos?
I caught myself breathing really slow and shallow watching this...almost the feeling of suffocating. I can't imagine living a life like this. Although we'd live a very long life, I'll keep my seconds being seconds, minutes being minutes and my life being my life. Fantastic video!
Depends on the memories, because life in general really isn't that interesting, you wouldn't stare at a second of a memory for 1 hour for "any hidden details" like.. "Oh, my hair moving 1 inch is a reference to this last memory", lmao no.
Of all the videos you've ever made, this might be one of my favorites. We all love watching crazy things happen in slow motion and always will, but this video and the psychological aspect behind it regarding time takes it to another level. More of this, please.
I once watched a dragonfly flying between water droplets and wondered how fast it had to react to maneuver. It essentially functions at a faster frame rate then we do. They may only have a year or two lifespan but they "live" for much longer then that.
That's actually pretty accurate. Living beings experience time at their own "frame rate", so to say. I read somewhere that some people have made experiments with cats to demonstrate that and they reached the same conclusion. Cats reacted to very, very brief stimuli that went completely unnoticed to humans. That explains how they get so good at catching flies in the air.
This reminds me of a joke I heard in church. A guy asked God, "God, is it true that to you a billion years is like a second?" God said yes. The guy said, "God, is it true that to you a billion dollars is like a penny?" God said yes. The guy said, "God, can I have a penny?" God said, "Sure, just a second
You could use it to tell the time within an hour. Take falling in the pool for example, you'd be able to tell what the time is in an hour by how close he is to hitting the water
I just watched the second video and loved it more than this one. I find them calming. Full credit to those who created, edited and scored the second video. Loved it!
The music and the thought of getting stuck at this speed gives me existential dread. Imagine what it would be like if someone like the flash couldn't shut his powers off?
Well at least the flash would have the ability to do things, imagine if you perceived things moving at that speed but were still limited to moving at normal human speeds. You’d be stuck in your own head and wouldn’t even be able to escape the tedium by watching tv or reading books. 240hz refresh rate screens would take an eternity... videos played at 20x speed would be glacial...
Does anyone else get slightly filled with dread imagining how bad it would be to be stuck at this speed. Even if you were surrounded by people you wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone. It would be so lonely. It would take you so long to move anywhere. You wouldn’t be able to let anyone know what was happening to you. To them you’d be moving at normal speed but acting strangely… 🙁
Not according to me cause nobody would have known the current 'normal' speed at which we live instead slow speed shown in video would have been the norm. Dread can only exist if we know about both & compare them.
Id like a long video of rain in slo-mo for like 3 hours
try living in Slough this is hispeed compared to there
Yes and the music really made it feel that way too. (I loved the music in this one)
I always imagine if I could have any power it would be time manipulation, but preferably like I can slow the world around me while I can still move at whatever speed I wish.
That said moving at the same speed as a slowed down world (not this slow) would still have it's advantages
I dont think enough people give credits to Gav's sound choice in editing. The music and everything is perfect to create a scene of awe but also relaxing
It reminded me of Tenet's soundtrack. Kind of time stopping/reversing
the music reminded me of the end of little nightmares 2
What is the music here? It sounds really good I just wanna put it on loop without any other sounds....
Relaxing? It personally filled me with dread and anxiety!. Although it was a very tiny wee bit relaxing
it felt like an existential crisis
That is absolutely wild, everything pretty much stops. I've never felt closer to being in the matrix.
perhaps you are in the matrix
In contrast the water balloon burst was so fast.
Hello Makers Muse. I wonder if this comment will get 500 replies.
Time is subjective to everyone,
60 sec is similar to everyone
@@Singh82a It's not the same, 60 sec lasts differently, it depends on which side of the toilet door you are :))
The sound design, the engineering, the actual clips, everything about this is a 10/10.
Easily one of the best things on youtube
Dan will downvote your comment -- TWICE!
Way to state the obvious
@@Didnt_ask69 ...?
Do you know what the name of the used music is?
@@MrBeyblade1 Its Bob Bradley - Hyperlapse but speed at 0.5
Dang, that really shows how insanely fast the water balloon popping is
yeah, everything else was like "time stop"
Right?? I was waiting for it to slow down, then it sped up..
The sound mix of this video is exceptional. Well done, as always, Gav!
thanks
Is it a good idea to microwave a Phantom TMX 7510? 🤔
The thumbnail is amogus
Ya well done🙄
That's added to the effect more..
The fact that when 1 second equals 1 hour rain basically appears to freeze in mid air really made me appreciate how fast a balloon actually pops.
Yeah it was fast
should watch their glass video dude youd be surprised at how fast it shatters
The hole is actually expanding so fast that it creates a sonic boom
I would really like to see the balloon hole forming in even slower motion.
also how fast danmaku players are
dude for some of these shots, time was so slow I literally thought the video was buffering. the only thing that gave it away was the slight twinkle in the specular highlights. Absolutely amazing haha
It's pretty much surreal idk how this kinda of technology exists
Wren and Gavin are two forces to be reckoned with
WREN!
Lol why are you lying there's music
and, yanno,.. sound
Thanks for such an amazing video. Please make a second part
dontthink $1.22 is enough for another one lol
@@Randy_Marsh yeah it's not. But i was just contributing what I can for such a good content. It was not for making the another video. Making another video is just my request
@@karanverma1516 I know I’m just playing around. They deserve donations on all their videos lol
And almost 2 years later, you finally got your wish :)
Who cares😂
This was incredibly trippy and mind blowing. The most realistic and grounded thing that kept me sane was that when Gavin dived backwards into the pool, his nose was the last thing underwater.
Seems like you're missing an "s".
69th like:)
Surface area 😂
@Repent Repent don't care tbh
@Repent Repent no u
Artistically, this is one of the prettiest videos you’ve ever made. Absolutely beautiful to watch. Please, definitely do a part two!
yeah
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The mouse trap one with the powder on top was pretty insane
I'm on board, and ready for Glass and Lightning next!!
Sound desing is on a next level
desing
Sound design?
@@captaincreosote probably it. Now I must go, I have things to desing
@@captaincreosote when the bot misspells
I agree with this sentiment so strongly that I choose to overlook the typo.
4:43 it's crazy that even when you go so slow to practically freeze the world, the balloon still bursts at fairly quick speed.
A Slow Mo Guys video without the usual chanting soundtrack is creeping me out! Feels like I'm inside the world of Inception!
anyone know what the music in the vid is called?
Best animations on UA-cam!
@@fiish8996 Please tag me as well if you find out. I am curious
@@fiish8996 Was wondering that myself, absolutely beautiful piece. Love the clock sounds in it.
It’s almost haunting.
These “falling into the pool for an hour” type of clips would make a pretty dope clock. If you have 24 or even 24*7 of them.
"Hey, what time is it?"
"It's half past Gav"
@@Buffbud96 🤣
Watching this back, this should definitely be submitted for some award. The idea is unique. But even without the initial concept, this video is just done so well, everything from choosing what and when to slow down to the music choice and the voice over.
I'm definitely down for a part two. Imagine the visuals we'd get with this kind of time dilation on glass breaking, firecrackers exploding, or even the flight of a bullet. Also, can't wait for Dan to be back in these videos.
What ever became of him?
@@Barnardrab one lives in the uk, the other in the usa. Travel restrictions haven't allowed them to record together since the start of covid
Alot of the things you listed are hard to film in slowmo as simply put, the cameras are still too slow. Glass breaking they tend to need to be closer to a million frames per second rather than 90000, its speed is insane.
Explosions are also difficult, they are so fast as to be again nearly instantaneous, again your looking around a million frames to get anything detailed.
Bullets however, fairly slow in comparison, 90000 is enough to watch them for a good few seconds crossing an area only a few yards across (a standard 9mm is roughly 1150fps, so about 3.1 seconds at 90000frames to travel 1 ft).
It slows it down enough to basically look like time is frozen but it doesn't slow it down enough for light to stop moving around beautifully, so I could see this being used in live action JoJo part 3 recreation if such a thing was deemed absolutely necessary
Or redoing the disc spinning until it shatters. The wobble it would catch would be great. Dropping mentos into cola would be another great reaction clip.
Love everything about this--the sound, the edit, the whole attitude. It doesn't come close to the wildest or flashiest SMG videos, but I think it might well be one of the best.
My favorite was when it was the rain and as time slowed it sounded like it was freezing in place.
Wow, I don't think I ever truly realized just how fast chemical reactions are. I mean, look at the match stick at 4:26. Every second is an hour to us but you can clearly see the chemical reactions still moving at a pace that is considerably fast. That's really dope to see
I was thinking the same!
A reaction in a hydrogen bomb happens in a 600 billionth of a SECOND!!
@@alikumail1985 Wah, that's so fast! If possible, it'd be kinda cool to see the reaction in a 1S=1H timeframe too but don't wanna be exploding bombs lol
@@psm-e4o I think you'll like slo-mo shots of cracks travelling through glass. Look them up.
@@anch95 Thank you for the recommendation, I'll check them out :DD
This might be my favorite video you’ve made. I’m sat in awe, especially at the rain one. It felt so surreal to suddenly see it slow down to a still image, or nearly one
ya it was so cool
i feel like this is where the channel was always going to go, showing existence at progressively crazier speeds until we reach this -- its almost too slow to meaningfully quantify. a day lasting an entire decade? its on a scale that boggles the mind. it gives me a similar feeling to the way i feel about the scale of the universe and everything in it. its simply awe-inspiring
I love how light simply doesn't care. While everything seems to come to a stop, the light reflecting off the water droplets just keeps sparkling.
Oh, you're right! It's so awesome and beautiful
Yea light is mind freaking fast in a short distance.
Better break out the femtosecond camera!
light travels at roughly 300,000,000 m/s so slowing it down to this speed, it still travels 83,333 m/s. If you wanted to see light move at say 10 m/s like stuff falling in this video, you'd have to make it 1 sec = 347 days
Well the way you can see the image is by the light reflected in general
The Sound Design! 👏 🥰
Especially when calling out the changes, faster to longer or to quicker. Fwoosh-master.
What is this in reference to? Not really sound design if it's just the sound from the recording as it's being sped up and slowed down.
@@MegaLPlover He creates the sounds himself. the Slomo cameras he uses dont record sound.
@@MegaLPlover Yeah exactly like Kenneth said. Because it records at such a slow speed the audio is impossible to record with it. So they design it all by themselfs. There is a video on their channel where they show this but you gotta look for it yourself
@@MegaLPlover no that's not how sound recording works, Gavin has to do all the sound design for the sequences in slow motion
I keep coming back to this video. Especially when I’m stressed, or my anxiety gets to me. Suddenly, moments in a day are a blur and it all goes by so quickly. I feel like I never have enough time to do things. But, when you slow down, and take the moment to appreciate just a second of time, stretch it out into an hour in your head, the world doesn’t move so quickly anymore. A lot happens in a second it turns out. Appreciate it.
Life comes at you fast. In a second, everything can change. Your day can flip one way or another. In a moment you can be the saddest you’ve been, to laughing hysterically. In one second, it could all be over, just like that. One second actually makes all the difference doesn’t it?
Suddenly when you think of it like this, the days are longer. Some days you don’t want them to be, but when you do, it feels better. Thanks for the video Gav.
What's amazing to me is even at this speed light sparkles on the water only last 1 frame.
I mean, yeah. Light speed is THAT fast. If you really want to know how fast light is and how fast a camera needs to be to see the speed of light, I suggest you click here: ua-cam.com/video/7Ys_yKGNFRQ/v-deo.html And after you watched that video, click here: ua-cam.com/video/pvDJ_d1n5mI/v-deo.html
@@dukkadukkah3155 not the speed of light itself, but the speed of the tiny droplets moving enough to reflect light into the lense for one (or less than) a single frame
I loved that shot. Like a million little blinking stars made from water!
(on a side note: hello Crowne!)
@@IndiBrony time stamp?
@@jjs01 4:45
I've actually contemplated writing a book with this exact concept. EXACTLY this concept. A person who travels through a frozen world where there is one hour between the tick and the tock of an analog clock's consecutive seconds.
I'm glad you used a bunch of water-based images, because I notice something very interesting. When something is in mid-motion, it appears stationary. But when a splash of water is in mid-motion, it appears SPARKLING. The droplets are so incredibly small that the angle of reflection of light actually changes at a noticeable rate. It's incredible. To say nothing of realizing just how fast something like a balloon pops.
I wanna buy it
ill take ten copies pls
I read a SCI-FI book where people could slow down their bodies, to where they were so incredibly slow that the people around them thought they were statues after decades or even centuries had passed.
Chemical reactions within the body would also slow down, not just the surroundings. Otherwise the human body would have to adapt to the such slower moving environment to sustain itself.
This concept is appliable to magic more than sci-fi. It's indeed a lovely idea for a story.
What Gavin does is truly art, this is a terrifying yet extremely intriguing concept to conceptualize, and you couldn't have chosen a better score, it makes you feel like this idea is a reality.
The clip of the balloon being popped and the formation of the water as it burst out made me picture our universe on a similar scale. Talk about terrifying, to picture our entire concept of existence being something relatively very small and very fast when perceived by something much much larger and older than ourselves. Or maybe that’s just fanciful thinking, but the feeling is there regardless. Artistic is the only word I’d use to describe it.
Song name?
and yet, after this incredible speed/fps, you can still see the light reflection on the water changing every frame'ish.
speed of light is amazing.
this is absolutely terrifying. the feeling of dread of being stuck at a time this slow, and the voice over and brilliant sound design matching the mood perfectly
Exactly what I was thinking about, even trying to commit suicide while stuck with perception this fast would be horrible. Agony for seconds turns into agony for hours, ideally you'd try to find something that kills you while you sleep, but even sitting there talking to a doctor trying to convince them you want out of this agony, would be agony.
@@Voulltapher Oh.
It’s incredible how some events, like the pool jump, look like they’re frozen in time, while other events, like the balloon pop, still happen very quickly.
Shows you how relatively weak gravity is when compared to other forces
@@Wabajak13
Is it purely gravity, or do some things just have more mass/weight and therefore more inertia? 🤔
I'd love to see pop corn popping at this speed.
This was profound and edited in a way that is on the level of high art.
One of my favourites from this channel so far. So mind-bending to imagine time running this slow, and how much actually happens in these instants that we aren't able to observe and process
It’s really cool to see how fast popping the balloon still is! It would be cool to see a comparison of extremely fast events, like balloon popping, glass breaking, rebar reaching its Tensile strength etc. But using this 1S=1H principal, it would be so cool to put into perspective how fast some of these things truly happen compared to others
This please
It's really fascinating to watch the rubber of the balloon split, like cloth torn along a seam, while the water is pretty much stationary. By the time the water actually gets moving, the balloon has pretty much disassembled itself already, leaving the water hanging in the air.
glass breaking would probably still be instant :)
they did a video on glass breaking. and even at 100s of thousands of frames, it was still only a few seconds for the glass to break.
this was back before they were under the scrutiny of investors. they demand quality on the videos, but to get to 100s of thousands of frames, quality goes down significantly. hence why you dont see videos like that anymore.
I would love to see a muzzle flash or a bullet using this
You know that scene where Fry has 100 coffees and everything moves like in this video? With your new robot you could literally film a version of that scene, cutting yourself in at different speeds 😂
Omg yes. Please bump this up people until someone does it!!!!
This NEEDS to happen
dear youtube algorithm, please bump this up so it is seen by more people and Gav. Thank you
That clip's almost a minute long. You want a 2 and a half day video?
@@bunnybro5977 yes. Yes I do.
The water balloon pop was amazing. It's crazy how fast it still seems at 90k FPS.
I like how even at 1sec=1hour you can still see light reflecting, just shows you how insanely fast light actually moves compared to time.
Wow. You're right! I didn't think of it that way.
and also the fact that enough photons make it to the camera sensor in a 90,000th of a second to create a not too grainy image
@@alinaqirizvi1441 which is what their talking about
@@titanicoftitanfall8730 they're*
Otherwise, this camera would be able to capture the speed of light, and that would be revolutionary.
The closeup of the match is crazy, it’s still sizzling really fast even at 1s/1h, would be cool to see what’s going on at a microscopic level.
Yeah. Even though the spread is slow. The sizzle is moving like... fire
@@10thletter40 you sound fun
Assuming we can see electrons with our microscopes, it'd pretty amazing
@@xenajin6827 I think we would be in for a show. Given the internet doesn't break down due to extreme loads because of every physicist tuning in...
This is my favorite Slow Mo Guys video since the one about televisions. INSANE cinematography going on here.
Earth in a droplet📹👍
Can someone tell me where Dan is? I've been out of the loop for a bit, and I haven't seen Dan for a while.
@@dfed324 He's in the UK and can't travel to the USA due to covid restrictions.
Hey it's that one splatoon and pokemon guy
This reminds me of a William Blake poem:
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And an eternity in an hour"
this video dunked me in the reality of space-time continuum . . .
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Lsd
That was also in the first Tomb Raider movie, speaking of which, there were a lot of cool slow-mo shots in that too.
@@sersoft_corp Death Stranding as well.
I love how you can see the light reflecting off the water is SUPER SUPER slowmo. It just shows how fast light really is.
Tbh even this doesn't show how fast light is, look up a light nano second (distance light travels in a nano second) and try to imagine anything else moving that far in 1/1000 of a second, other than a gamers arm
Your videos, over the last year, have become so much more technical, and to me personally, quite interesting.
I think it's because Dan is in another country and hasn't been able to come to the us because covid
true, dan is the goofy one and that's why I like him (gav is cool too)
The thing that always blows my mind about perceiving time at that rate isn't how everything moves so slowly, it's all the things that STILL look fast!
Ikr
Like, the match was still kindof bubbly, wtf was that about!!
I'm sure if you were stuck at that speed you'd find things in life that are normally really really fast and then it's just normal for you at that point.
Makes you realize just how fast light really is when you watch how it’s being reflected in the water
An excellent observation.
At this speed, light would still cover about 83km every second
@@gabrielstraus4116 That's 51 mile per hour.
@@SpinoRexy733 51 miles per second ;)
The water still looks like it's moving. Pretty slow looking movement, but seemingly noticeable. But in fact I don't think the water is moving a noticeable speed at all. It's just making incredibly minor imperceptible movements, which changes the reflection of light, and it's the light that is moving.
This is still one of the most beautiful and fascinating videos you've ever done. It's really melancholy in a way, imagining what life would be like if your consciousness was at this speed. You'd have thousands of years' worth of thoughts and reflections in the time it took you to physically age one year. It's mind-boggling.
"Babe why are you still up again?"
Me, a decade later: There was this video by The Slow Mo Guys...
Still again
i see you've drastically improved your slow motion face Gavin. Top marks!
Hello there black beard 🤣
I have long sought you!’🎫🎟🎗🎁🎀🎑🎐
go into her room, don’t 🤙🤘🖖🤞✌️👇
It makes "I was only closing my eyes for a second" a lot more accurate.
In the German science fiction novel series "Perry Rhodan", the protagonists once entered another universe where time was running 72,000 times slower than in our universe, so about twice as slow as the slow parts in this video. The effects described in the book were pretty on point to the footage here, thank you for giving me a visual representation of it!
In the novel, the protagonists were able to move at "normal speed" through the slow motion world. They had to be careful not to run too fast or they would feel the heat of atmospheric friction and they had to watch out for raindrops, because they might get a serious injury from walking into a completely stationary and unyielding drop of water...
I would really love an hour long footage of the rain falling. Maybe not quite as slow as the falling into pool but enough to see the rain drops slowly falling with some nice calm music. That'd be awesome
If you make a part 2, I’d love to see:
a crack propagating in glass,
glass shattering,
an arc forming across a spark plug,
That shrimp that punches so fast it creates bioluminescence,
Close up of skin being scratched w flakes/dust forming.
Glass clip is what I was waiting for so absolutely this
@@oXy30mg Especially a Prince Rupert's drop which usually is too fast for most cameras.
Mantis shrimp?
A beam of light would be cool to see as well. It will still be way too fast to see the light crossing a room, even at this level of slowmo.
I'd love to see a blender chop something up. Or one of those smoothie maker things
this is why I find super speed such an interesting superpower, imagine being able to perceive the world like this whenever you want, still moving at a relatively normal speed from your point of view. you could climb on waterfalls before surface tension happens, you could stand on water
reminds me of the quicksilver scene from that one x-men movie
wake up
You could swim on lan- wait no
Yeah imagine having that power and then losing a fight to a normal dude with a cold gun or a normal guy who can become three normal guys.
@@rammingtime well technically you could just grasp the air and climb/swim
It is amazing to see, at this frame rate, how the physical world *almost* comes to a halt. And in the raindrops falling (from a roof, or from Gavin in the shower) display the slightest amount of randomness in their motion.
Really accessing an almost forbidden realm here.
Thank you guys for your amazing slow mo movies and the information you give on them.
I wouldn't mind seeing some of that super-close, super-slow footage showing:
(1) Gunpowder igniting (not huge amounts, but instead, LOTS of detail of small amounts like 1 granule of gunpowder/ 20 granules/ 50 granules),
(2) A fuse burning,
(3) Magnesium combusting,
(4+) Some of those interesting chemical reactions, like 'Elephant Toothpaste,' or 'Thermite reacting,' or even the 'Mentos + Soft Drink' thing. Any such interesting chemical reactions, really. Maybe even something simple like a super-slow, super-close image of one of those horrifically caustic acids eating its way through metals/ organics (some cuts of meat).
(5) What about super-close, super-slow comparisons of a grinder eating its way through some hardwood, vs a rotary (or circular) saw doing the same? Maybe wood would be boring, maybe concrete would be better? What about grinding + cutting through metals? Showing those sparks being made.
Same^^
For sure.. same!!
Agree, the match close-up was particularly interesting.
That barking dog thing at this rate would be sick
add to that maybe just one large drop of water hitting the ground
Dan being hit in the face by a football!
I love how the water shines almost as glittering stars. Imagine seeing that in a black background, you could fake space
ive actually done a photography trick that basically does that, i spray water onto a mirrorand turn all of the lights off and turn my flash on, its really cool after editing!
The choice of music was dead on. Made me feel like I was watching something of cosmic importance.
what song is it?
This must be what my dog experiences when I go to the mail box without him. It's the best explanation I have to the response I get when I walk inside.
I'm honestly surprised that the water balloon popping is still that incredibly fast at such an insanely high FPS.
Anyone know his specs I wanna play roblox on what he has
I believe it’s because the balloon is tearing at the speed of sound.
@@f1shyspace lmfao
That's the video I'd like to see the full second off.
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And just think it works both ways, there is something that may perceive the entire 14 billion year old universe in a nanosecond.
That's part of the trick about why relativity is so amazing. Our entire universe for all the trillions of trillions of trillions of years it has yet to live ... could just be a spark flying off a firework to some other form of life beyond our comprehension.
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@@no_going_back8456 I do care bish
@@no_going_back8456 one miniscule speck in that video, say a tiny flicker of light from a drip of water, could be the birth and death of a micro-universe ... Something so fleeting and beautiful we will never know it existed. Countless worlds could have spawned vast civilizations and died out over endless eons ... but to us it was just a speck of light in a UA-cam video.
The Creator would likely be the one to perceive that way
This gave me an existential crisis. Please, more.
This is genuinely one of my all-time favourite videos on the platform! It's conceptually great, but the overall execution is what makes it - the music choice is great, and I really love the overall look and feel that the high-speed cameras give this video, which you wouldn't find anywhere else.
Not just a part two: this video could be an entire series alternating with your regular videos. There's practically no limit on what would be interesting to watch at this time factor.
I would love the 24 hour version as a screensaver or for display models in stores
Dude, I would love a video at this speed of nails growing and paint drying
@@Ben-rz9cf that's a good idea.
He said he had days of footage, right?
Maybe he could upload some of it
@@Ben-rz9cf on what
Imagine literally watching paint dry at this speed. That's a solid 3600 times more metaphor right there
MORE like this, please! (The close up of the match head igniting was mesmerizing! All those little boiling bits... WOW!)
A German comedian once said: whether a minute is short or long you can notice by whether you are waiting in front or behind of the toilet door. And in my opinion, there is no better description for how relative the length of a minute is
I've never felt as calm as when imagining/seeing time slowed to this rate. Thank you.
I appreciate the audio cues for the matchstick. That made it easier to know there was some action worth looking at even if it was very small. I’m shocked how everything seemed still at 1s=1h, except the water ballon. Wild how fast that is.
The physics of everything in slow motion really seems to change in some strange way. Just makes me think that, to us humans, everything seems to be in almost constant motion. But to very small or very fast things, objects in reality must be pretty much at a complete standstill.
Like looking out into space. Everything looks still to us.
@@matthewjohnson1891 That's a very interesting thought that often keeps me awake at night. Thinking how limited we are by our own perspective. I sometimes wonder what time must be like for different creatures, especially those with different lifespans and reaction times than us, like mayflies or fruit flies. Is time slower for them? Is time faster for say, giant turtles? What about that immortal jellyfish? Time is clearly not stationary for them because they can move around with time and can seemingly perceive everything with time. This is why I love science.
If time becomes irrelevant, it feels trippy without even looking so trippy.
yes exactly, from the right frame of reference perhaps even the entire life of our universe is not even what a blink of an eye would seem to us
@@Bhez7 It's such a weird concept. Time, which is seemingly such a universal concept being different from different perspectives. Not saying I disagree wirh it. I just find it so interesting and fascinating.
This whole revelation of different timescales had me thinking: "Bloody insane."
Especially with a day lasting just under a decade long at 90k FPS. Absolutely mental!!!!
This really shows what it'd feel like to have Superspeed
Quicksilver pov
6:20 this clip is amazing. the way the water bulges up and sticks to his head, before the tension snaps. you'd never notice it in real time.
Also the distinctive gap in refractive index adds cherry on the top
Copied word for word
I think the match was the most surprisingband impressive. A chemical reaction which we normally perceive as nearly instantaneous... stopped in its tracks! Really impressive!
The image quality, the edition, the sound design, the colors… everything in this video is top notch.
The music is SO relaxing I wish I could have it on spotify or something
Yes it is. Do you know the music?
if you never found the music its bob bradleys hyperlapse and its slowed to 50% speed and it sounds like theres some EQ differences but thats the song
@@AlexandraSpeaks Omg thank you so much! I was looking for the song
It's amazing to see how much detail is packed into every moment, even at such high speeds. The match at 4:08 has so many little things going on, it reminds me of Conway's game of life.
that's nutty insane! 🤯 it's almost like time stands still ⏱
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Tbh his talking about the same concept as if your living on mars for a year when on earth is like 2 or 3 years
I don’t know why, but watching this gives me the exact same feeling I get after watching a particularly deep documentary.
It's the background music.
@@milpy1257 Ha! Most likely, yes!
Or interstellar….
Humanz
Because of the music and his voice whith that absence of talking/moving humans.
Guy’s you’re both so amazing. Your ideas and approach just leaves me in awe.
amazing how much activity there still is in some of the shots that are slowed down to 1s=1h, this should be shown in schools just so people can see and understand more of the world we live in
Thats crazy. Especially the shower and the match
Jus be less cheesy:( kids dont like if u try to hard to be cool
@@BodakBris66 huh?
@soccer_short stop spamming this bs
Fun fact: light travels around 3.3km in the interval of a single frame at these speeds.
my god that is fast
Next video:
• Find a foggy, flat area (or cloud) that is 10km long
• Get styropyro and one of his high powerd lasers
• Stand far back to get all of 10km in frame
• Record 3 frames of a laser beam shooting through the atmosphere
@@YourMJK oh yeah just simply get 10km in a single frame, job done easy pease
@@YourMJK if you're on a non elevated area which means you're on the same level of sea, the max view distance is around 5km
@@SwordlessNinja If you want to shoot perpendicular to the beam, standing 10km away and a 36mm lens would do the trick.
With an 18mm one, 5km would be sufficient.
Shooting at an angle would even allow you to be a bit closer.
Gav,
I'm sure you have millions of hours of footage like this. Idea: Get with a new-age/ambient music artist and package these slow mo clips into long form relaxation videos?
I would totally watch three weeks of this footage with that music.
Yes please! This was so calming and nice. I want an hour+ version of this to have on in the background.
10/10 idea
PLEASE
I caught myself breathing really slow and shallow watching this...almost the feeling of suffocating. I can't imagine living a life like this. Although we'd live a very long life, I'll keep my seconds being seconds, minutes being minutes and my life being my life. Fantastic video!
now imagine playing your memories at this speed. you'd see every detail.
Depends on the memories, because life in general really isn't that interesting, you wouldn't stare at a second of a memory for 1 hour for "any hidden details" like.. "Oh, my hair moving 1 inch is a reference to this last memory", lmao no.
Imagine not forgetting anything and seeing time as slow as this.
Its easy, just be a tv show detective.
@@jom6987 "CRAWLING IN MY SKIN!"
Nah jk you're right that'd be the most boring hour imaginable
if life runs in revue just before death .then you die for an eternity ;-)
Watching the balloon burst was astounding. Even at 1 second per hour it still moved so fast.
What do you mean by 1second per hour
He said 1sec is 1hr , not 1sec per hour.
The balloon was what shocked me the most!
Would love to see that clip uncut. I agree the balloon burst was awesome!
The balloon must be splitting at somewhere close to the speed of sound.
1:30 I love how the slow motion “choir” slows down aswell, signifying that we’re going into a much, much, much slower frame of time.
This was unexpectedly poetic. Great video!
This was beautiful.
Amazed by the fact how speed of light still dominates.
And by an unfathomable amount, too.
We need a part two of this!! the footage combined with the sound design is so satisfying
There's a lot more activity at this speed than I expected
Teacher: What if every second lasted an hour?
Me: I could complete my homework.
I would still wait for last moment
@@ioftendontreplybacktoidiot5251 procrastinate < 3
@@ioftendontreplybacktoidiot5251 😌😂😂 Me 2
@Avya Kumari probably still wont
Seeing the balloon compared to everything else really reminds a person how insane elastic is
Of all the videos you've ever made, this might be one of my favorites. We all love watching crazy things happen in slow motion and always will, but this video and the psychological aspect behind it regarding time takes it to another level. More of this, please.
This video is fantastic...I'll definitely rewatch this when I'm rebreaking my my mind on micro biology and astrophysics.
I once watched a dragonfly flying between water droplets and wondered how fast it had to react to maneuver. It essentially functions at a faster frame rate then we do. They may only have a year or two lifespan but they "live" for much longer then that.
That's actually pretty accurate. Living beings experience time at their own "frame rate", so to say. I read somewhere that some people have made experiments with cats to demonstrate that and they reached the same conclusion. Cats reacted to very, very brief stimuli that went completely unnoticed to humans. That explains how they get so good at catching flies in the air.
Yea
Watching a dragonfly at this framerate would be cool. But probably hard to achieve and get in focus etc.
Its their temporal resolution so to speak
Thats true, but i think in case of the flies its because there pushed around by rhe air infront of the water drops.
Imagine how fast those bubbles at 4:20 are moving that even when the time slows to 1s/h they're still kinda fast. That's actually amazing
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@@ckpioo i was expecting someone pointing it out tbh, it was just matter of time hahahah
@@IBPuglia_ LFMOAOA
True
you realize thats a matchstick
At 6:41 it feels as though we just returned to normal time, love your editing mate
Me : "Hello, is this 911? My house is on fire!"
911: "Okay, 1 second"
Rip
Lol! Oof.
This reminds me of a joke I heard in church.
A guy asked God, "God, is it true that to you a billion years is like a second?"
God said yes.
The guy said, "God, is it true that to you a billion dollars is like a penny?"
God said yes.
The guy said, "God, can I have a penny?"
God said, "Sure, just a second
Lmaoo 🤣🤣
This is the one of the most terrifyingly beautiful things I have ever seen.
Could be interesting as a wall art piece, where the image is slowly changing every time you walk past it.
You could use it to tell the time within an hour. Take falling in the pool for example, you'd be able to tell what the time is in an hour by how close he is to hitting the water
I mean, there is one somewhere, it is a young woman that turns old as you walk past it, and in reverse
Made into an NFT?
Digital wall art.... Interesting
@@SlimeKing5788 , that's pretty cool.
I just watched the second video and loved it more than this one. I find them calming. Full credit to those who created, edited and scored the second video. Loved it!
The music and the thought of getting stuck at this speed gives me existential dread. Imagine what it would be like if someone like the flash couldn't shut his powers off?
Well at least the flash would have the ability to do things, imagine if you perceived things moving at that speed but were still limited to moving at normal human speeds.
You’d be stuck in your own head and wouldn’t even be able to escape the tedium by watching tv or reading books.
240hz refresh rate screens would take an eternity... videos played at 20x speed would be glacial...
@@johnpenguin9188 FR Though bruh. At least the flash could move at normal speeds relative to himself at times like this still XD.
Reminded me of this reddit story I read:
www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/o0njim/wp_time_freezes_when_youre_awake_and_flows_only/h1wrjre/
try to read "If you’re armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me" creepypasta
Wow that story was really good