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MIT’s trillion-frames-per-second camera can capture light as it travels
A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second.Compare that with a traditional movie camera which takes a mere 24. This new advancement in photographic technology has given scientists the ability to photograph the movement of the fastest thing in the Universe‚ light.The actual event occurred in a nano second‚ but the camera has the ability to slow it down to twenty seconds. For some perspective‚ according to New York Times writer‚ John Markoff‚ &;quot;If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion moving through the same fluid‚ the resulting movie would last three years.&;quot;In the video below‚ you'll see experimental footage of light photons traveling 600-million-miles-per-hour through water.It's impossible to directly record light so the camera takes millions of scans to recreate each image. The process has been called femto-photography and according to Andrea Velten‚ a researcher involved with the project‚ &;quot;There's nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera.&;quot;(H/T Curiosity)This article originally appeared on 09.08.17