The world with a trillion FPS Camera, Camera Culture, Bawendi Lab, MIT

[kindpotato]

this would be nice if i could see where the light is coming from

[dasten123]

very cool!

I would like to see a light wave bouncing off from several mirrors standing face-to-face

[pughparkour]

I'd be curious to see the 2-slit experiment in this

[world4i]

as impressive as light is , I still want to see a really fast bullet at trillion fps

[muffin8or]

@world4i

Light travels 500,000 to a million times faster than a bullet. Watch it at this speed and it would take you 4 or 5 months to see it travel the same 10cm the light did in 15 seconds.

[MichelJCardin]

I think that maybe light as we know it should be called something else like maybe residue of residue of a transfering energy.LOL

[MichelJCardin]

@MichelJCardin You need to retreat at the speed of light and one photon less per frame to capture each possible full instance of completly useable reflection. I think.

[andrenuclear]

lol same song in every video

[littlec916]

you're not actually looking at light itself. you're seeing its reflection on surfaces. unfortunately we still dont have the technology to actually SEE light.

[noregrets92]

@littlec916

*turns on lamp*

*gasps* i see it! :D

[noregrets92]

@littlec916

*turns on lamp*

*gasps* i see it! :D

[DSBrekus]

How about recording a pulse of light passing over a bullet mid flight, that would shut up these bullet people :P

[yzujq]

i dont know what im looking at

[dougspair]

@yzujq Well yes, hard to tell, but the speed is what is impressive.

[divernika2]

Wow universe (engine) sure does many calculations per nano second :P

[talk4smart]

you cant record a bullet at that frame rate and then watch it. even if you watched it at 60fps it nearly be infinity long

[goofiegoofball]

wonder how large the raw video files are

[bluewhale18]

i would like a bullet video

[theoldgeek1]

@bluewhale18 The fastest bullet travels at near 1.500 m/s. Light travels at near 300.000.000 m/s, 200.000 time faster. This means that this aparatus for hyper slow motion is 200.000 time faster than what you need to see a bullet in slow motion.

[Netanel17]

@bluewhale18 would you like more IQ while were at it?

[fatalfeedback]

soooo amazing actually visually seeing light behave in a wave pattern... incredible

[briangman3]

Very weird, I wonder if this can be a tool for scientist looking to study light in optical circuits or in other optical systems?

[keggerous]

wow .. . who would havwe thought one day we would be seeing the propagation of light on a video

[ZoderOne]

A bullet video at this speed would be painfully slow to watch.

[jcasa12]

The three eyed toy makes this, that much more cooler XP. At some point they will solve the one dimensional limitation of this camera and will be able to capture the light burst in real time, like stack several of this camera together and sunc them to shoot at the same time O_o

[DinoDude65]

Science rules.

[Michonathon]

It CAN NOT capture footage of bullets, explosions, etc.

From what I can tell, this is why:

The slit in the aperture only allows the camera to capture 1 dimension of the scene. The shoot needs to be repeated many times at slightly different angles (adjusted using mirrors) so the entire picture can be put together. Light pulses, unlike bullets being fired, can be repeated with a seemingly low degree of variation.

[AMYuntold]

Damn these are very boring. Just show us what happens when you switch on the light in a room. And when it comes to water, god damn you don't show how the laser passes through within, you show how it ENTERS the surface from above at an angle!

[l0r3nz0isSaf3]

quite amazing

[MailYouHave]

They got the tech, but they lack the fantasy to make it interesting.

[chibraxial]

@MailYouHave

blahblah scientists have no soul yada yada yada

....

technical limitations, experimental set up ETC ETC .

[chodaboy51500]

@MailYouHave You don't need fantasy to make this interesting. You just need the intelligence and imagination to comprehend its implications.

[jack390]

Damn... youtube doesnt have a trillion p option :/

[lhsazevedo]

Optical Fiber!

[watercup123456]

These videos really help me to visualize how photons are moving and bouncing around in space :-D

[BrotherBrownMusic]

In the last scenary it seems to me that I'm actually observing the two different forms of light, as after reflecting from the back of the water container, the pulse is "split" into several minor pulses whilst a wave of light still travels through the water reflecting fthe sides of the container...?

[artifactingreality]

great tech shit music

[shtf8ced420]

Any way of installing one in a partical accelerator?

[ClubBangerTV]

now let's make a camera lense with 1,000 megapixels that can record ATOMS.

[ronnieboy3]

I really would like them to film the double slit or any other quantum interference experiment.

[lappodude]

@ronnieboy3 oh dear, we got 15 retards here!! I see you did not read this article or "double slit" article!

[sbc2k1]

fucking weak

[samofhansen]

@cameraculturegroup how do you think this will effect the world of physics and what we understand about the properties of light? also, how many giga(if not tera)bytes did these videos take up?

[Bready55]

it's amazing how light moves like water.



[2hworm]

i hear that its actually fast enough to capture a picture of a woman with her mouth closed.

[tsuimusic]

I would love to see the double slit experiment done with this camera.

[mulymule12]

See*

[mulymule12]

I'd like to seem them pass the light pulse through some sort of mist or snake so you can see the pulse pass through it?

[mulymule12]

@wrathallll you can use a more useful cameras for bullets where it's at a slower 1billion FPS where it would take a little less time than 12 day like previously mentioned. :) pard but a 17 year old! Aww yeh!

[blingblang1988]

You should take a video of when you put two slits soo close together that the line of light looks stretched the on the other direction on the wall!

THUMB THIS UP!! This would look so cool!

[BFDK]

Try a double slit experiment with this! That would be interesting.

[000osm000]

in the first scene light goes inside the mirror but doesn't bounce on the cardboard.

It goes ))))) ... shouldn't it be ((((())))) ?

[jokerfacehro]

this camera has 600 milliard (trillion) frames per second. in order to watch every frame you have to show 30 frames per second. that means to watch every frame of one second recorded with this camera you have to watch 30 frames per second 1024 seconds :D

[zantesh]

@jokerfacehro i see youve got a brain but i also see why you don't teach

[jokerfacehro]

@zantesh why because i mixed up trillion and billion :D

[cavakun]

I see the light behaving as wave but not as particle what happened to the photoelectric effect?

[servercabinet]

Did I see how the light bounced off of that glass.

[vanHillQ]

i hope these people asking for bullet videos get enlightened some day

[KRRands]

@vanHillQ You cant expect 14 year olds to understand how amazing this is.

[l2udolph]

@KRRands I'm 15. And, I think this is utterly one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.. But then again, I have more of a science background than most 15 year olds.. So, whatever..

[iroxalots]

@vanHillQ lol that is like hoping for a camera that can capture the movement of light. ohwait lololol no I agree though

[BelviGER]

@vanHillQ Well, you could upload a bullet video but it'd probly be lame anyway because there wouldn't really happen anything...

[chibraxial]

@vanHillQ

That would be boring as hell.

[Hubieee]

@vanHillQ

the joke is, with this camera one cannot film a photograph. It needs a pulsed laser that emitts pulses in a very similar way as the sensorarry of the camera photographes the scene. Only this makes it possible to get more than one array of pixels of the scene.

[bobsmith93]

@vanHillQ Yep. Unless they actually just wanna see a bullet picture

[RADIOACTIVEBUNY]

@vanHillQ Lol they'd be like 3 years long.

[KH2fanatic2010]

@vanHillQ I hope you BECOME enlightened

[vanHillQ]

@KH2fanatic2010 I appreciate your correction, English is not my mother tongue you see. However, your comment seems to have a harsh connotation... I hope you calm down a bit, maybe that way you would have noticed that I didn't capitalise the "i" :P

[dougspair]

@vanHillQ They'd get bored watching a bullet a couple inches in an hour.

[xuantl]

wow!

[ClickingStudios]

@wrathallll LOL, it would take literally hours for the bullet to pass, because light goes aproximately a million times faster than an average bullet.

[FatalNovaKain]

@wrathallll You have no idea of the scales here, just hear me out. Assuming the average width of an egg is 1.5 inches (3.8cm), with a high velocity round say a .224 caliber, which travels about 1.200 m/s, and also assuming this video is playing at 30 frames per second, it would take 1055553.3 seconds for the bullet to travel through the egg, yeah that's over 12 days. If you want to watch something that you can't tell is even moving for 12 days keep making your stupid requests.

[wrathallll]

@FatalNovaKain lmao, you mad bro? ok..DICKHEAD, didnt think it would take 2 weeks, maybe if sum1 shot your stupid face with a gun, id watch 12 days of that

[FatalNovaKain]

@wrathallll Not mad, but you said that the laser light is boring, you don't know what you're witnessing, which is a shame, for you. I was putting it into perspective, but never mind.

[wrathallll]

@FatalNovaKain yes ok, i now get it. there was no need to be rude

[FatalNovaKain]

@wrathallll You've got a good point too.

[zargorn]

@wrathallll Bullet would take three years to cross the screen. So not very interesting ...

[chikotube]

laser pulse through water tank was the best!!!

[xG33Kx]

@chikotube No, I think the corner of 3 walls was the coolest. Interesting how it was like a bubble.

[Angularocillation]

I demand that you send a pulse through a fog machine.

[CandGPxexpert]

SCIENCE!

[antiprotons]

truely amazing!!!

[mtnbikerET]

That's amazing



[musaed55555]

Amazing !!