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

A fruit and a roll of tape illuminated by a femtosecond laser pulse and effectively captured at a trillion frames per second. Light moves less than 1 mm per frame.

For more info visit http://femtophoto.info
http://raskar.info/trillionfps
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-m...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html

Music: "Rising" by Kevin MacLeod (http://music.incompetech.com/royaltyfree2/Rising.mp3)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Camera
• slow motion
• ultrafast
• MIT
• camera culture
• trillion frames per second
• edgerton
• Capture
• Light
• Media
• Lab
• speed

[krazyliljoo94]

Music: "Rising" by Kevin MacLeod

DO PEOPLE NOT READ FUCKING DESCRIPTIONS????

[kehezen]

@andacg1 you don't need 600 billions fps to capture that

[WilliamNaville]

@xSticky209 i guess you dont have a clue in physics because slow motion capture is a big gimmick....as long as you cant watch something in the actual fps (and render it in your mind) you can observe it if something is just shot 120000 fps and you are watching it on a 60fps monitor that means it will be slow mo, but are you really observing it?

[YouBestN0tMiss]

I wish I had that many FPS in BF3...

[legionarivsroma]

@sh1zlEE yeah, true, I didn't notice that

[sh1zlEE]

@legionarivsroma i didn't say this isn't slow motion and yes, it probably has a trillion fps...

i said this isn't slow motion capturing

[legionarivsroma]

@sh1zlEE You sure? So it doesn't make any sense to put "a trillion fps" on the title, since this isn't slow motion.

[ROTORHEADPR]

WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY! @ least do the experiment on a nice set of boobs next time 2 make it worth watching!

[sh1zlEE]

@xSticky209 this isnt actually slow motion video capturing...

they just record this again and again and then put it all together on a computer

[xSticky209]

@WilliamNaville I guess you have no idea what Slow Motion video capturing is.

[dswimr615]

Explanation of the astounding capability this video exemplifies (put simply):

Humans have now perfected a technique in which they can capture THE SPEED OF LIGHT as it moves across a desk. The (almost) fastest moving particles are now able to be recorded. Absolutely fascinating. If you don't think so, go watch things explode on FPSRussia. Stay out of my nerdgasms.

[oguretsagressive]

The theory of relativity and this video are having sex inside my brain. To say something clever I have to wait for them to finish.