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

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/tr...
Project website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar/tril...
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mitnews

• Category

  Science & Technology

[zelldot]

Thumbs up if you want MIT to do the double slit experiment with this camera.

[Matthew Frank]

we MUST get Gavin from rooster teeth/Slow-mo guys this camera.

[Amit Sharma]

Amazing



[Meeperify]

I came to youtube after watching TED about this to post that comment guess I'm not the only one :D

[settazteca]

Does this comment work as a petition?

[C4Par1]

what surprised me even more is that there are NO dislikes. science... it works, bitches!

[Chris Walsh]

Oh yeah man... the harlem shake is just soooo much more amazing then watching a video of light particles moving... the foundation speed of all modern physics. I can just see your going to do humanity proud one day.

[Bader HS]

anyone else saw russell peters in this video ?

[Ted Tedson]

It's not photons?! Not even close.

[Anthony Athanasakis]

Almost revolutionary! But each frame of video is compiled from many images so it's not showing true slow motion of a single event. For example if the slow motion imaging of the bullet passing through the apple was created the same way as the photon imaging they would have needed to fire many bullets into many apples and then combine the information from all bullets at the same point to make each frame of video. But each bullet event is unique while each photon event is identical (so they say).