Trillion-frame-per-second video makes speed of light look slow:
[video link] Researchers at MIT have created an imaging system that collects visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. "That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom," according to the announcement.
Andreas Velten, one of the system’s developers at the Media Lab, says “There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera.”
Whatever. I want to know what it does to the chipmunk.
(thanks, Miles O'Brien!)
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