A trillion frames per second

CCIP · 12-13-11, 08:56 PM

This was featured on BBC earlier today, and honestly I found the footage to be mesmerizing:

A special camera imaging system built to produce images at a dizzying one trillion frames per second. That is so slow that light appears as pulses of photons traveling in a line. The video shows a laser pulse traveling through a coke bottle, which at this rate appear as a 'bullet' of light floating through the air.

That is really, really cool. Reminds me of how the speed of light is one of those things that's always hard to imagine - but here it is actually captured

12-13-11, 08:56 PM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	A trillion frames per second This was featured on BBC earlier today, and honestly I found the footage to be mesmerizing: A special camera imaging system built to produce images at a dizzying one trillion frames per second. That is so slow that light appears as pulses of photons traveling in a line. The video shows a laser pulse traveling through a coke bottle, which at this rate appear as a 'bullet' of light floating through the air. That is really, really cool. Reminds me of how the speed of light is one of those things that's always hard to imagine - but here it is actually captured __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)