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2022/2/25
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Lulu Latif和Josh讨论了沥青滴落实验，该实验以其极慢的速度而闻名，并与人类的感知能力形成对比，突出了不同时间尺度的存在。 Carl Zimmer解释了人类神经系统处理信息的速度相对较慢，这导致我们对世界的感知滞后于现实，我们总是生活在过去。 Seth Horowitz认为听觉是人类最快的感觉，因为它绕过了大脑的意识处理过程，直接触发了身体反应。 Andrew Zolli、David Kestenbaum等人探讨了高频交易的自动化算法如何使股票市场交易速度远超人类感知能力，这带来了效率提升但也存在风险，例如2010年发生的“闪电崩盘”事件。 Lina Vestergaard Howe描述了其团队如何通过冷却钠原子并操控光脉冲，将光速降低到极低的程度，甚至使其停止并进行传输，这展现了对光和物质的精细控制能力。

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The Pitch Drop Experiment is a long-running science experiment that demonstrates the properties of pitch, a material that appears solid but flows over time.

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We live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, which first aired in its entirety in the winter of 2013, we put ourselves through the paces. We examine a material that exists between two states of matter, take a ride on the death-defying roller coaster that is the stock market, open up our internal clocks of thought, and achieve mastery over the fastest thing in the universe.

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