Visualizing Light over a Fruit with a Trillion FPS Camera, Camera Culture Group, Bawendi Lab, MIT

[skiingfreestyle]

this is just unreal. So amazing it took me a while to understand what really light was doing, even though I have recreated that same video in my mind.

[btje1999]

beautiful



[mwilson14]

I would love to see this done on the two slot experiment. It would be amazing to have a visual display of both light and, somehow, fast moving particles up to the size of buckyballs traveling through crystal slots at 1 trillion FPS. I guess this could be considered a visual representation or approximation of 1 trillion FPS. Though not recording 1 trillion fps in the same manner as 60fps, it has application and merit in my book.

[nehomar2005]

I highly recommend read, and understand, the video description, before believing 1 trillion frames per second recording is possible, of course it's impossible. You cannot record faster than light.

[thetarget]

@nehomar2005 yet

[shrimperking]

The 2737299th frame was certainly the best. It conveyed such beautiful emotion...

[demwatch]

@shrimperking Yes, I could feel a tear passing over my cheek, 1 trillion/second increments, my heart skipped, in 1 trillion/second skips

[777jpan]

驚愕！

5.39121×10-44 秒に少しだけ近づいたみたいな・・

[Silko3000]

You develop a camera that can film at a trillion frames per second and you film a TOMATO?!?!?!?

[Caudaliss]

Now show me a video of light traveling through a diffraction grating.

[tobbaddol]

This is what sunrinse in Discworld would look like. :)

[hanzithaking]

try shooting it with a high power rifle :)

[nielzdg]

@hanzithaking Since light appears so slowly in this video while it in real time it's so fast that it could travel around the world almost 8 times in just one second, you probably wouldn't see any movement at all if you would film any bullet impact with this camera...

[hanzithaking]

@nielzdg yeah but you dont have to se it @ 1 trilion fps they can adjust the speed

[xmrheadshotsx]

Im sorry but it's still not fast enough to catch Chuck Norris

[1rralphh1]

damn it all loos so ...cartoony

[hrvojepede]

am i the only one who watched the whole thing hoping to see tomato splatter in slow motion?

[tyler2190fly]

Its cool, I'm not overly impressed though. I'd rather see how it is going to change science and what kind of discoveries will be mad using it.

[rypofalem]

@tyler2190fly To me it seems like more of an engineering feat than a scientific one. It's very impressive, just doesn't teach us any more about light.

[tyler2190fly]

@rypofalem I just wanna see what they actually want to do with it. I'm still not impressed by this video.



[TheAssgas]

@tyler2190fly well I'll just quote their paragraph about possible applications:

"applications include industrial imaging to analyze faults and material properties, scientific imaging for understanding ultrafast processes and medical imaging to reconstruct sub-surface elements, i.e., 'ultrasound with light'. In addition, the photon path analysis will allow new forms of computational photography, e.g., to render and re-light photos using computer graphics techniques."

[TheKaustubha]

I don't know what I was expecting... but it wasn't this.

[huntedFX]

is there any practical use to this technology?

[clayton8m]

@huntedFX Using this you can take a picture (anything with a flash) and it will map out the entire area of a room (like sonar). Also you can take an ultrasound with light as well because its the same process, lighting up the outline of the child.

[andrewzzz777]

The music makes me feel like doing something epic. :D

[hitskin666]

technical....



[SVDShooter]

Tomatoes are fruits, but are classified as vegetables because of their uses.

[neil182sr]

Ok guys just to let you the human eye see's up to 60fps

[Fireinyourface]

Tomato is not a vegetable but the tomato paste on pizza is

[llortatsujmai]

What's so special about this stupid video. 58 other people are thinking the same thing.

[135BoZo]

@llortatsujmai We can for the first time see how light moves. Pretty special

[tedirelan]

What are the applications of technology like this?

[nielzdg]

@tedirelan I'm guessing it could be used to film particle collisions in particle colliders, and stuff like that. Analysing things that are very, very, very fast.

[tallguy111]

@nielzdg this technology would not be capable of filming particle collisions. it can only film repeatable events. The camera actually doesn't film a single pulse of light shining across the tomato, but actually millions of pulses are captured via a special device called a streak tube. These pulses are then all averaged out and combined to form a single "event'.

much like snowflakes, no two particle collisions are identical.

[tedirelan]

@tallguy111 I'm not being sarcastic when I ask this: Do you have a degree in a similar field (to particle collision)? I'm asking because your understanding of this technology seems right on (not that I have any schooling in the matter). Again, I'm not challenging the validity of your statement, but rather remarking on how cool it would be to have someone comment on this video that knew what they were talking about.

[tallguy111]

@tedirelan i am in my final year pursuing a degree in physics, math, and astronomy. So, to answer the question, no, i do not, but i have worked on experiments using a particle accelerator, and do have a certain amount of experience. Further, I noticed your other comment in response to nielzdg, and can tell you what he told you was incorrect.

[tedirelan]

@nielzdg nice. thanks. I just kept reading people comment on how it could be used for many differant applications, but no one mentioned any examples. I had a hard time coming up with anything that we couldn't already capture with a high speed camera.

[tallguy111]

@tedirelan there aren't many applications of this camera outside of demonstrations of how light behaves, even the developers have stated that. not because it wouldn't be handy to photograph quantum interactions, but because, even with this technology, that's still impossible. The reasons why are more complex than could be explained in 295 characters.

[marklethanarkle]

amazing. so you couldn't possibly record light with a traditional sequence, as the moving parts of a shutter would have to meet or exceed the speed of light, which of coure is impossible. so you have to collect several exposures over a certain amount of time, and put them in the order you think the occurred. perhaps the data collected here will help you guys develop a camera capable of recording the same info in one go some day, lol! this is good stuff.

[OnlyThreeMusketeers]

You people can't even understand the complexity and true uses of technology like this. That is the reason you aren't changing the world, just commenting on it on a fucking youtube video. Get out and do something with your lives, much like these people at MIT have done.

[MercuryAudioVideoArt]

Government funded super laser blah blah toy: $12,000,000

Apple: $0.25

Look on everyone's face watching another $12,000,000 vaporize on Youtube: Priceless

Math: high speed camera + stationary object = boring /me either JacksonCarl123

[Crime12333]

OVER 9000

[BiGfootOwNs]

WTF is this supposed to mean?

[JacksonCarl123]

I don't even understand what this video is trying to show...

[dewisch]

How can you make such a dull video about about something so fascinating. And why choose this music to make it even more lifeless.

[KingOfTheSticks]

if im honest i looked at the comments thinking id see someone saying tomatoes are vegetables, i'm genuinely surprised

[fishrcoolturtles2]

@KingOfTheSticks would you stop insulting peoples intelligence and focus on your own you faggot

[vinfiend]

@KingOfTheSticks the you missed the idiot who wanted to use this camera to photograph 'ghosts'

[syrfnr]

was anyone else waiting for the tomato to blow up?

[MineMoreFish]

If you look closely, you can see a ghost at 1:43

[259gale]

I did not find it interesting :/

[jgo94015]

It's funny how the top comment is a post more interested in being visually entertained, than truly understanding the amazing potential behind this.

[GoOgleBG32]

The tomato is a VEJETABLe not fruit ffs

[BlueShadeProductions]

@GoOgleBG32 lol come on mate, its really not.



[GoOgleBG32]

@BlueShadeProductions man u idk why u call overseas tomato a fruit but atleast in Europe i know its vegetable.

[BlueShadeProductions]

@GoOgleBG32 Im from UK. botannically/scientifically a Tomato is a fruit (look it up) but it is considered to be a vegetable for culinary purposes or under United States law apparently.

[cocopuf97]

@GoOgleBG32 A tomato is a fruit because it has seeds. Don't get mad at me if I'm wrong, but that's what I've been taught in school.

[ThemesMaster]

@cocopuf97 eggplant has seeds too. Does it mean it is a fruit?

[MajorKoenig2]

@GoOgleBG32 But if a tomato is a vegetable because its in pizza, and pizza is also a vegetable, wouldnt that make a tomato a pizza?

[jaronrendon]

@GoOgleBG32 Tell that to our American government, who listed Pizza as a vegetable in schools cafeterias..

[GoOgleBG32]

@jaronrendon i loled

[MrManson94]

so where's the blowing-it-up part?

[supertrojans21]

why am i not impressed?

Oh yeah...

It's a tomato

[clownsfartconfetti]

Damn light, you slow

[ApplesAreSweet]

They shoulda blew up the fruit.

[KalEl600rr]

you MIT guys might be smart but you are NOT, i repeat, YOU ARE NOT EXCITING OR FUN TO BE AROUND.

please sell that camera to someone who can put it to good use. Like the slo-mo guys

[1993gandy]

@KalEl600rr 1 second in real time would take well over 1000 years to play back at 1 trillion frame per second not to mention the amount of space it would take on a HDD. You would need at least 1 yottabyte (1,099,511,627,776 terabytes)

[raulsbo]

Really? That's it? You spend thousands in a "Trillion FPS Camera" to show LIGHTS OVER A FRUIT? I mean, who wouldn't like to do that?

[ransacked100]

CRAP

[thekingbeyondthegate]

even at a trillion frames per second some will still argue whether the ball was out

[buzzcutrocks]

Hell, they can show a bullet or something that is actually interesting. But light?

[DFWkush]

why didn't they smash it

[Anthony556]

Silly photons with their particle-wave duality. The wave on the background is cool.

[TubeSalvation]

watch?v=ysNd4QGOgeY

[chocodil2]

aw that was too boring

[TubeSalvation]

@chocodil2

Too bad it could not catch a Ghost ;(

[yazidaziz538]

im 15 and i dont know shit what's going on

[theoldgeek1]

@yazidaziz538 The idea is to have a camera so fast that you can see a light pulse traveling at hyper slow motion. The laser pulse is so short that the light thickness is only a couple of milimeters and the number of frames per second is so high that the ligth pulse is moving at 1 milimeter per frame. So played back at the usual 30 frames per second the light pulse seems to move at something like 3 centimeters per second.

[radiovalvulado]

Perdi vários segundos nesse vídeo sem propósito.

[Muzzy337]

Yawn. Cool story, bro.

[brotherducker]

1 second filmed with a camera capable of filming at that speed in HD would take up approximately 3 exabytes.

[ConorRyan22]

Kṛṣṇa



[ingineous]

FRUCKRIN WOW !!!!!! one step closer to time travel!

[lunaticial]

"vampire physics" if you put into the search it would be interesting to see that experiment in motion

[josejuanow]

I didn't get it at first then i took an arrow to the knee.

[tibispeedo]

i have that kind of camera on my cellphone . wtf

[killaxclan]

This is the camera they are going to use for the 300 sequel.

[Truthiness231]

<3 MIT. Big time. This is somewhere around the millionth great thing to come from there.

Even playing the video at 60 FPS (way faster than our eyes can see anyway), it would still take over 528 years to watch a full second (recorded at 1,000,000,000,000 FPS, divided by the playback speed of 60 FPS for 16666666666.66~ seconds of film, divide by 60(secs to mins), 60 again(mins to hours), 24 (hours to days), and then 365.24 (days in a year) = roughly 528 years, 54 and a half days).

Sweet Jebus...

[thekingbeyondthegate]

light camera action

[fanman320]

they shoould crush it 

[fatalfeedback]

it's amazing to actually see light behaving in a wave... absolutely amazing

[TheSamuraiMai]

sub to mah channel!:D

[ITCOMPLECATED]

Cumshot to some chicks face, would be a better idea.

[jjgdog5614]

Came for the light stayed cause the music

[lavatahir]

? makes no sense

[420Riffs]

ttrippy

[jyouri007]

69 people like the top coment^

[cheezeit90]

Related Video about being happy to cut off their legs..wtf?

[ctnblrrngr]

This will never become a viral video because you're not putting it in laymans terms (ie. huh? so what?) you're describing it like MIT professors....

[Somestupidbody]

HAHA! The tomato is a fruit!

[crushedjonlive]

i was expecting them to like blow up the tomato or somein.

[Riverboy1986]

This is fucking stupid...

[calledtheduty]

they have a camera fast enough to capture everything except one thing and they chose fruit... the one thing is chuck norris

combining top to comments :) now give me my thumbs up :P

[cj1419]

read the description... what we watch is compiled footage of a bunch of light pulses, not a single continuous light wave

still cool though

[SuperKenedee]

its computer generated by the way

[ReggieWriteous]

MUSIC is LUV! Youtube/REGGIEWRITEOUS

[hwud1]

Please sell that camera to the Slow-mo guys, they'll at least show something more interesting than this !

[andreirocks1992]

@hwud1 no, they won't :D. you can't have moving things on that camera

[SnowWalkerPrime]

Beautiful and amazing.

[leerman22]

Now you can watch the Neutrino Vs. Light race!

[FictionAbe]

Where getting there ^^

[jasminhotel]

I WANNA STEAL THAT CAMERA

[Michael425x]

Damn science, YOU SCARY!!!

[lemob182]

wtf??? somebody please squish that tomato so we can see all the juice fly out in super slomo!!!!!! i'm honestly disappointed

[deviroth]

@lemob182

Filming something like that at a trillion frames a second would produce a video that would probably be about 2-5 years long. Are you sure want to sit and watch that? LOL

[Etrajbe]

@lemob182 holy shit.... such an ignorant stupid guy hhahahha

[insanecaine]

This looks faked

[Julianbearchasser]

@insanecaine No, this looks terribly faked... Its 3Ds MAX.

[Endev0ur]

Now blow something up

[bonephish12]

They should make a .GIF

[DCM0Dz]

This experiment minus 250 million dollars = A sunrise

[hendersonn11]

they have a camera that could capture literally anything, and they chose a fruit.

[We3SmokeTree]

@hendersonn11 with light bouncing off it.....thts pretty amazing dude

[pohatu559]

@hendersonn11 You have a pair of eyes that could see literally anything, and you choose to stare at a computer screen.

[greenbaycity]

@pohatu559 yeah...that wasn't that good of a comeback lol

[Kleave333]

@hendersonn11 False! They captured the speed of light on a fruit. >.> Thats about as fast as it gets. ( Need I mention light is the fastest thing in the universe?)

[kirkleblanc]

@hendersonn11 NO, A "Fruit" choose that camera!!

[jccalva]

@hendersonn11 No my friend...they chose light.

[GoOgleBG32]

@hendersonn11 vegetable mate

[al7umar]

@hendersonn11 *A vegetable

[chan00chap]

fake

[amberboa]

Sorry to be the realist but, tomatoe is a vegetable, not a fruit.

[MrYakuto]

@amberboa While it is botanically a fruit, it is considered a vegetable for culinary purposes, so naming it like you please

[crackerjack69100]

why?

[red88ization]

that is incredible nice job guys

[Soooooooooooonicable]

Did they just film the movement of light??? THAT'S AWESOME!!

[theBIGreekgeek]

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it's ok i was just taiking away the jizz from my keyboard :D

[XMansv]

1. They didn't actually shoot trill/second, they strobed a trillion times over many seconds - the cool part is the timer.

2. Why don't you eggheads do something useful like cure PMS or something?

[coled82595]

@XMansv calling intelligent people "eggheads" proves you are not intelligent

[XMansv]

@coled82595 And thats your best analysis isn't it fucktard.

[TheAwesomeToast]

How the hell did I get here.

[brahim121985brahim]

finally we 're seeing the group of photons traveling

[kkhunter87]

this discovery will change WORLD as we know it

[bamford207]

tomato is a vegetable

[zeztro]

@bamford207 it's a fruit because it grows on a plant not in the ground it doesn't matter what it tastes like though

[mjhart75]

Ummm... im too stoopid for science, i dont get it either.

[PerceptionModified]

Isn't it amazing the beauty that is before our eyes everyday and yet we do not see because things move so quickly? Very nice, thank you for sharing.

[232FLIGHT]

i dont get it !

[ReggieWriteous]

MUSIC is LUV! Youtube/REGGIEWRITEOUS

[chodaboy51500]

Chuck Norris vision!

[Undeadpizzaboy]

@chodaboy51500 chuck norris is like old now :/

[Imhighandhungry]

@Undeadpizzaboy your old

[youartoyube]

@chodaboy51500 nope! that's Ron Paul vision

[DesGardius88]

You can't "see" light travel through the air. You can literally only see anything if light reflects off of it and into your eyes, you can't just see photons in the air. Vision is literally your brain processing photons that have entered your eye, you can't "see" light that's not entering your eye. This video is basically like me moving a flashlight across a wall and telling you that you can see the light moving

[LivingVessel88]

@DesGardius88 Close. We are seeing the reflection of the wavefront of photons. Each pulse is a wave of photons leaving the source simultaneously. Each point in the image is a different distance from the source, giving different intensities at each position at each point in time, from the number of photons reflected from said point. So, while we are not "seeing the photons as they travel through the air," we are seeing the exact photons that were at that point, minus a few femtosec

[chodaboy51500]

@DesGardius88 Actually, it is more like shotgunning a pulse of photons at objects and seeing what hits our eyes after bouncing off of the surfaces.

This is not panning light, it is a pulse of light that is less than a centimeter long illuminating (by reflection) as it passes the objects. The light source is completely turned off a fraction of a second into the video.

[400yuan]

fake 1080p

[HaveFluFunPal]

Even if it's just a simulation, it's quite (forgive the pun) enlightening.

[suicideking302]

Turns out light is boring!!!

[misemus1]

@shasato & co. : sorry, english speakers! Don't tell me again how to spell genius (reason:lots of mail) please. I saw immetiately my innocent mistake, it doesn't matter.

Anyway Shasato, I was joking, your review was good :D

Bye!

[tuymaretarkunnecup]

it's amazing...