Insane! watch MIT’s trillion-frames-per-second camera capture light as it travels: Video

MIT has unveiled a groundbreaking camera capable of capturing an astounding trillion frames per second, a significant leap from the mere 24 frames per second of a traditional movie camera. This technological marvel empowers scientists to photograph the movement of the fastest entity in the universe—light.

Despite actual events occurring within a nanosecond, this remarkable camera can slow them down to a comprehensible twenty seconds. To put this achievement into perspective, if a bullet were similarly tracked in a fluid medium, the resulting movie would endure for three years, as noted by New York Times writer John Markoff.

In a captivating video demonstration, the camera showcases experimental footage of light photons zipping through water at an astonishing speed of 600 million miles per hour. Directly recording light is an impossible feat, so the camera employs a meticulous process, known as femto-photography. Andrea Velten, a key researcher on the project, aptly states, "There's nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera."