What a week for pushing the limits of human knowledge. Not only are we closer to identifying the very particle that explains how the Universe is built — we also have realized that a camera can break the speed of light.
MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of 1 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.
Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, one of the system’s developers, calls it the “ultimate†in slow motion: “There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera,†he says.
Fonte: Hi5ing
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