New MIT camera makes slow motion movies of light

You read that right. The camera, which captures trillions of frames per second, can track the motion of light across a scene in human-comprehensible time. You can read all about it here, and see a video here.

Beat me to posting this. Very cool stuff. I like the scene in the vid linked to in the story of a laser pulse traveling through a soda bottle.

This is interesting. It’s a effective rate of a trillion frames per second. It seems to be repeated pictures taken of a pulsing light source, with the picture rate offset by an an eyelash from the pulse rate–would that be a good summary?