View Full Version : Perception of real sense of sight
So I realise our eyes are only evolved enough to capture a certain number of frames per second (maybe I'm overlapping technology here to get across what I'm trying to explain... but it's around 14-16 I've been told) and technology has outstripped our senses in many regards, so we can have compression ratios and we won't notice any real difference between the compressed and severely uncompressed recordings through a video camera.
Anyway, what would the Universe resemble in a completely objective lens? What would it be like watching things move if you saw it this way? Do photons come into this explanation at all? Sorry for my lack of knowledge and expression, I'm not very science inclined.
MrSparkle
2008-10-21, 17:52
Yea photons would come into this. With our eyes we can see a finite range of the light spectrum. We can't see things like infrared and UV but machines can. To answer your question you'd probably just see a big black mess because of all the different visible phenomena overlapping. Maybe not though I don't know.
angryonion
2008-10-22, 01:42
You would see everything at once and then go insane.
Because if you could see the full spectrum you could also see time itself and our brains cannot handle that so you would go nuts (ie) have a short circut then you would be left drooling in a corner like some acid head from 1965:D
Telephoneman
2008-10-22, 04:48
so- how visible would something appear if it was only in a place for one sixteenth (or whatever or perceptual "frame rate" is) of a second? I am talking about something like a helicopter blade or something. Something else to consider-is this rate constant? could you match it and then phase in and out of it? Would there be possible blind spots- in a matter of speaking?
glabella
2008-10-22, 06:17
If you were something that saw all spectrums I imagine you would have also evolved the faculties to process them in some discernable way.
so- how visible would something appear if it was only in a place for one sixteenth (or whatever or perceptual "frame rate" is) of a second? I am talking about something like a helicopter blade or something. Something else to consider-is this rate constant? could you match it and then phase in and out of it? Would there be possible blind spots- in a matter of speaking?
It's probably more a 1/15th of a second response time, than a 1/15th of a second frame length