MIT’s New Imaging System Takes Movies at the Speed of Light

A trillion frames per second
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This is the age of miracles and wonders. Tonight’s case in point: the MIT Media Lab’s new imaging system that takes exposures at a trillion frames per second, allowing researchers to actually visualize light traveling through space.

Human beings are now looking at photons in motion. Unbelievable. This video shows a nanosecond pulse of laser light traveling through a plastic Coca-Cola bottle:

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