1 trillion fps camera captures photons moving

[Yugopap4me 29]

Hope this isn't a repost. But always interesting. I still don't fully understand how we could possibly capture light moving. It seems like it would be physically impossible considering nothing can travel faster than light.....except expansion of space. They said that they used multiple cameras. So maybe they were timed just right as to not miss anything? Eta they explain how the did at the very beginning of the video, I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to the details

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ef_1375648127

Edited September 4, 2013 by Yugopap4me

[DogMan 2,343]

As my grandmother would say......."This is the work of the devil!"

[Yugopap4me 29]

Its amazing to see light traveling more like a bullet rather than a wave as described in my old school books.

[Dad2142Dad 6,559]

Its amazing to see light traveling more like a bullet rather than a wave as described in my old school books.

The old school books lied. Just like duck and cover would keep you safe from

 

[XD45 7,124]

Light behaves as a wave except when you're looking at it. No I'm not joking.

[Sim_Player 1,939]

I always pictured lightwaves as "pulses" .

[Yugopap4me 29]

I wonder if they chose to shoot the light through water on purpose. since light travels slower through water. Another fun fact is that light is made at the suns core and it takes it 10,000 years for it to make it's way to the surface and reach earth. So the light were seeing now is at least 10,000 years old. I would really like to see this technology used at the microscopic level or further

Edited September 4, 2013 by Yugopap4me

[XD45 7,124]

Actually the light we're seeing now is ~2 nanoseconds old, assuming 2 feet from your monitor to your eyes.