MIT’s Super-Fast Camera Can Capture Light as it Travels
At
MIT a new camera has been developed that can photograph a trillion frames per second. Compared
to a traditional movie camera which takes
24-60 FPS.
This technology has given scientists the ability to photograph
light, the fastest thing in the Universe. In the video below, you’ll see light photons traveling 600-million-miles-per-hour through water.
The actual event occurred in a nano second, but the camera has the ability to slow it down to twenty seconds.
According to New York Times writer, John Markoff, “If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion moving through the same fluid, the resulting movie would last three years.”
