Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

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MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects. Video: Melanie Gonick.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html
Project website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
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  • Take a video of a light turning on in a dark room

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  • @TheMechaGeek please do not feed people that say "troll" ugh!

  • That's pretty amazing.

    You cannot watch a photon going past you, only one that hits your eye's directly. I believe this thing works off of scattered light.

  • @Wassamattawityou LOL, So you turn on a fluorescent light and you can see the photons of light wizzing by?

  • Yes! I can finally play Skyrim!

  • @PonyofDuality haha :D

  • @MrKurtLane Actually you can do that with a much cheaper camera than this one. Florescent and Incandescent light bulbs actually take a relatively long time to turn on. So instead of a big wave of light spreading across and illuminating the room, the room actually just starts out dim and gradually becomes brighter and brighter..

  • @SquareCrystal Lol, you're so fucking dumb.

  • @ambi3nttech

    admit it or gtfo.

  • @SquareCrystal I'm not a terrorist... You shut the fuck up and get the fuck out you ignorant, retarded son of a bitch.

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