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.

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[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.

[plutgamer]

Because a 3 year video is fun!

[HGUMUT]

Did anyone notice Andreas Velten started to speak with indian accent?

[Lord Havelock Vetinari]

You seem to have several misconceptions about the way light and optics work.

first of all they aren't filming single photons, those would be too small to film with any kind of camera, they are filming streams of photons, and they aren't actually filming the photons as they move across the scene, they are filming the photons that bounced off particles in the air and other surfaces and thus their wave functions have already collapsed down, which is how every camera and even our eyes work.

[mauricio prado]

How is it possible that one single photon can cause all that reflection, that is the behavior of "wave" of a photon that was never achieved to be observed, because the only fact of measuring (observe) affected the behavior of the photon, to act as a particle. I believe that this IS NOT COMPLETELY TRUE that they shot and film single photons or they have just made a huge break through in quantum mechanics because that means that they could see if the photon goes through one slit or the other.

[pandemonstrosity]

They probably already did the experiment but the results was universe-shattering that it must be kept secret.

[Jurie Debie]

Faaake

[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?