Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS

[Pigeon]

A real action camera

[Pigeon]

[Royal]

Gnarly videos.
Didn't know we had cameras to capture light that quick. Maybe it says something for UFO research.

Second video had a great quote at the end connecting evolution of sight to what waves are absorbed by the atmosphere:
"Their view of the entire universe would be heavily dictated by the composition of their atmosphere"

[Pigeon]

That is an interesting point that isn't discussed much, if at all.

Although life forms who are not highly influenced by "vision" might react differently.

[Royal]

Different topic- how our vocabulary affects vision. If there's no name for it, it's harder to see. Trip on that for a minute. Sapir-whorf hypothesis.

[Pigeon]

Interesting.

Default to the name "widget".

I find myself in a strange new land and everything looks like a widget for some reason.

[Pigeon]

If there's no name for it, it's harder to see.

Would you say in both mind and physically.

[Royal]

If there's no name for it, it's harder to see.

Would you say in both mind and physically.

Correct. The example the author Clifford Pickover gave in Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves was about how West Greenlandic and Inuit (Eskimo) people had different names for ice and snow. Because of their environments, this allowed development of single words to describe situations with ice and snow.

Greenlandic Examples:
New Ice - sikuliaq
Snow blown into a doorway - sullarniq
snow falling in air - qaniit

Inuit Examples:
Snow/Rain particles - Kanevvluk
Fallen snow - aniu
Fresh snow on the ground - nataryuk

Take the examples of other worlds. They may focus more on electromagnetic phenomenon or radio waves if they are exposed to more anomolies that involve it on their world. If they can measure it, or have built it in to their evolution, they could develop technologies , intelligence, around it at a higher rate.