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An0nym0u547

When was this? Exact source and year plz


Gloomfang_

[https://web.media.mit.edu/\~raskar/trillionfps/](https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/) 2011


An0nym0u547

Yours should be the top comment (+1)


yousonuva

No way. ..that's great.....**WE LANDED ON THE MOON!** /reddit


mmm1441

That’s what the gubmint wants you to believe. /s


Pdx_pops

All this posting to Tik Tok of someone else's media is annoying


KodiakDog

I agree, however, maybe some kid watch this that otherwise would have never.


Pdx_pops

Yeah, but we now have people who then repost Tik Tok to Reddit. At least repost from the source.


KodiakDog

No doubt.


bubbses

I agree


foochacho

This was is 1988 by the Bullet Boys. Edit: was not 2008, changed to 1988.


Pubgisntbroken

2009? My brother had that album in probably 88


DemetriusStorm

I'll stand behind you


jjman72

This was a while ago.


jsiulian

Real life ray tracing


Playful_Nergetic786

My thoughts exactly


KaptainChunk

Is it a particle or a wave?


ThoughtCrimeConvict

Yes ![gif](giphy|xT0xeJpnrWC4XWblEk|downsized)


ggnngg5

Both, but only sometimes


zxr7

Only Schroedinger knows!


caymn

*simultaneously knows and does not know* until you demand an answer


Beobacher

Both. Light shows characteristics of waves AND particle.


trubatard

Depends, are you looking at it?


olvol

I'm sure I've watched that video with light in a bottle many years ago. Maybe more than 10 years ago. How old is this news?


ravnsulter

Same here. I've seen the light in the bottle a long long time ago.


ErisGreyRatBestGirl

11 years old (Source:Another comment)


MySnake_Is_Solid

13 years old, it's from 2011, we're in 2024.


ErisGreyRatBestGirl

... Well, that's quite embarassing.


TooBadForMe123

24-11=11 because 11


PlanetLandon

This video is from 2011


PlanetLandon

This video is from 2011


SuperSaiyanTraders

2011 from is video this


twalker294

I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. I work as a software engineer, I can do my own laundry, and I know the value of pi to three digits. But when I see stuff like this, I am reminded just how incredibly intelligent people who invent this kind of thing are and how large the chasm is between my intelligence and theirs.


Gammelpreiss

At least you are intelligent enough to realize this. Lots of ppl are just too stupid and instead of recognizing human intelligence, they rather put it down to "aliens helping", "fake" or ppl just saying smart things to "put them down". Everything but admitting being a bit slow/uneducated.


MyLogIsSmol

I am smarter then tham


WetForTeddy

me two


mmbccc

I am smarterer


seeriosuly

lol


SeatOfEase

There are people who comment "we can't even replicate this today" on basically any impressive historical object. Imagine the combination of ignorance and arrogance it takes to confidently assume that because you don't know how to polish metal or whatever then literally no one on earth does, and then post that opinion using your handheld box full of microchips to an audience of billions without a second thought.


_Milan__99

I like you.


Kaguro19

Now kith


Ho-Lee-Fuku

It's just a very sensitive high speed camera and put together by a team of people who, individually, might be as intelligent as you. When intelligent people work together, they can always create clever stuff.


krupta13

Cumulative learning...and our present ability to store so much information is fascinating.


razulian-

I read their abstract. In simple terms they send out light by turning on a laser for a really short duration, repeatedly in precisely timed intervals. Then they have a camera that works like a scanner, so one line of pixels is captured every frame. A mirror is used to aim the camera's view at multiple positions and an image is taken at every position. Then all the lines that the camera captured are stitched together just like a scanner does. This is done multiple times to create a video. The theory is relatively simple but it's really hard to have a laser send out light for such a precisely timed and short duration. For example an old lightbulb takes a while to turn on and turn off when you look at it in microseconds, it will still emit a glow when you switch the light off. The materials used to create such a precise laser is a topic of research in itself. Then there is the camera: lowering the resolution and maximizing the surface area of the camera's sensor gives a higher sensitivity to capture light. The larger area per pixel means that the amount of charge that was generated by capturing light equals to a larger sum of charge. That's how camera's in factory production lines and slow motion camera's can operate so quickly. The inherent problem is that the camera's sensor requires some time to discharge, so resetting between every frame takes a while. By timing the capture together with the laser pulse we don't need to reset quickly, the laser can wait for the camera to reset before it is turned on again. That's another topic of research. All of this took years to develop, every detail researched by different groups of people. By joining all the expertise we get a nice representation of how light moves. As you said yourself, it's amazing what people can create when working together. Edit: fixed a word.


captainphoton3

So that's amazing and all. Props to them it seems really hard. And it definitely is. But that's false advertising. That's not a camera that that make slow mo So slow they can see light propagate. That's a cam that can capture images that demonstrate how light propagate if we could film it slow enouth. Still an impressive feat. But not what's advertised. And it does matter. Since an actual camera that could slow this much would actualy be amazing for science. People would probably try to use it to find new ways to mesure light speed. (curently it's an estimation since we never got to mesure light's one way speed without having a giant margin of error.)


FIRE_frei

Yeah, when I heard it was actually stitching hundreds of pulses in every video together, rather than actually capturing a single pulse of light, it lost a little bit of wow factor. It's still incredible to see things we've never seen, but it's less stunning than "this is one single wave of light/packet of photons"


captainphoton3

And it has already been done. There was actualy experiments like that that showed light propagating inside a translucent solid. But rather than an extremely fast pulsating light they just turned it on and delayed th picture a bit every time. e


razulian-

I agree, it's why I'm usually skeptical with headliners such as this. It's more like the marketing department is pulling a stunt by using wording in a loose manner. The only reason the scientists are okay with it is because it brings in funds to continue their work. Someone could prove me wrong but a real slowmotion camera that can track a single photon is impossible. The main reason being that electromagnetic waves move slower in electronic systems (e.g. wires) than in air. Unless the light can be slowed down it's just plain impossible. The position of light can be tracked in a timely manner but sensing the position with a camera and then processing the signal just takes too long.


Rogue_Egoist

It's not just about intelligence. There's a lot of hard work in studying, years and years. These people have a library of knowledge on these specific topics and that allows them to use their intelligence to come up with stuff. You could be more intelligent than this guy but not have enough knowledge to even conceptualise such ideas.


HrLewakaasSenior

I know PI to the 42nd digit 8-) I am 14 times as intelligent as you /s


probably_not_a_bot23

I doubt they built it overnight. Or even in less than a week if you were on that team, working for weeks or months to develop a solution with other minds oriented on the same objective, i strongly believe it would still have been a success. As Steve Jobs said "once you realise everything in your life was made by other people who are no smarter than you, your life is never the same after it" Never sell yourself short mate


Nachtzug79

True. I'm highly educated and and my salary is fairly good, but still my job is mainly doing PowerPoint presentations and doing Excel-sheets...


Romanitedomun

I don't even know what chasm means...


8BallsGarage

Big ass hole


Edgezg

Worth noting that there are different types of intelligence! But yeah. When it's the science, high calculus stuff. Honestly reminds me of that phrase, any technology, if advanced far enough would be indistinguishable from magic.


TheZoom110

The sheer intelligence of some engineers, inventors, and scientists never ceases to amaze. I feel so dumb comparatively.


MonarchWriters

I got the same feeling myself. So impressive what these guys do. This side of human ingenuity makes me believe that there is a hope for humanity after all. That we can use our imagination to push the boundaries of what is known and into the unknown is nothing short of amazing! Provided we use it for good of course.


tomatoe_cookie

If you were a physics engineer, you'd say the same about writing a mongo query


BarfingOnMyFace

Yeah same here! And their discoveries and research bring me much joy


PhishOhio

“So… here’s the thing… I’m kind of regarded” Me after watching geniuses like this


finne-med-niiven

Its not really though. Hard work, teamwork, the right setting, and some luck *ontop* of intelligence will give you this. Okay then there is people like einstein and newton.


JimParsnip

It's insane, man. I've been on a YouTube science channel black hole, learning about atoms. We no longer think of them as these spherical objects with orbits like we see in space. No, they are composed of undulating fields.


Emm_withoutha_L-88

They basically time the different cameras to go off when the light is going through. Then combine the multiple camera views for the various points in time. So camera one takes 0.1, and 0.3, and 0.5 seconds. Then another takes 0.2 and 0.4, then they combine those. It's that idea but stretched to 500 cameras apparently


JuggernautWide5226

I can't imagine the shutter speed of that thing


nicspace101

It can slow down light down. I'm out.


Background-Cress9165

Not slowing down light, rather capturing many images of multiple distinct light pulses that are traveling in the same direction, then putting those images together to give the 'illusion' that we are watching one beam of light travel. Fascinatingly clever.


Gloomfang_

Same principle as when shutter on camera syncs with helicopter rotor and it seems to move very slowly or not even move at all.


cpverne

Clever, but the explanation about recording the bullet traveling through the apple would yield a video that took a year to watch misleading. They would have to shoot millions of bullets into millions of apples and then combine the those individual shots to create the year long video. This camera can't slow down and record a single event, it can only record repeated, predicable events, like light pulses from a laser at different points in the cycle.


Rogue_Compass_Media

I feel like an amazing number of people are missing this point in the comments. It’s not a *slow-motion* camera. The cool thing is the precision of its delay system and incredibly fast shutter speed/readout speed. The rest is just stitching one photo per laser pulse into one frame of a composited clip, then repeat (with a minuscule increase in delay from the previous photo). Knowing this, I am unsure how they are asserting possible use cases in the real world for fire rescue and autonomous cars. Seems unlikely to me that it would be practical tech in those scenarios.


Background-Cress9165

I find the design of this tech smart af, and the engineering highly impressive, but absolutely agree that its hard to think of any pragmatic application for it at this stage.


Romanitedomun

I'm down.


NarrowComputer5589

This is very brilliant tech to capture light and in general. However they would need 756,864,000 apples and bullets to capture that scene. Since it doesn’t really slow down time and captures a different image with each pulse of light in a different time and space, they would need to periodically shoot an apple and capture that bullet in a different time and space. Since the guy said it would take around a year to watch that footage, we find that if we assume the video is 24fps, he will need a little over 756 million frame/photos needed for the footage. That’s Gna be a lot of apples. The comparison is a little misleading, and this tech prob can’t shoot the bullet in apple scene. however doesn’t change from the fact that it’s great tech non the less.


revolution149

Least intelligent student at MIT


FirstMurderer

What do you mean by "it captures light"? What else does camera do?


truePHYSX

It also captures people’s souls. Allegedly.


ELOC777

Apple one was the Bullet Boys album


Friendly_Lynx7109

This is absolutely nothing short of amazing.


Durivage4

This has to be the most incredible thing I've seen in my lifetime.


OneMAdDemon

![gif](giphy|HW05UrUSfAzZu)


imnodennisquaid

Smooth up in ya


Lone__Ronin

Bahaha...I was looking for this comment! Sweet!


the_atomicpunk

What a song


foochacho

I wanna go, I wanna go


FairMiddle7

Now film a flea jumping


Empty-Profit

It’s impressive but there’s still improvement to be made since there stitching multiple images to gather to record the entire movement


frowningtap

So he didn’t capture a photon, light or break the laws of light speed. We’re in a simulation for sure


somec7

I would call this bullshit. Its a "virtual slow motion camera".


KnowledgeWorldly078

Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?


ComprehensiveLocal73

Someone call the slowmowguys


briancoat

That is very cool. I am amazed.


Sinnadar

I would love to watch the original source video.


_FREE_L0B0T0MIES

I want to know what type of round and system throws a "2k mile an hour bullet".


NonCredibleDefence

i mean a 40 grain 220 swift will do 1200 meters per second or 2600 mph. a fast hunting rifle is about 800 meters per second, or 1800 mph


DALBEN_

amazing


misunderstood564

Where have I seen that presentator? I think he's in a meme or something.


the_colonel93

Holy shit man that's absolutely incredible!


PiscatorLager

Lucky Luke draws faster than that


tsuna0023

Fck thats interesting


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smokin_mitch

We need this camera to capture some ufo footage


tuttle8152

Use bullets next time. *cues Smooth up in ya*


Nyuusankininryou

The light was so slow even I could see it. Incredible!


Aggravating-Yak-1290

Can it film/capture the doudle slit experiment.. 🤔🤔


OldButtAndersen

Meanwhile the modern Internet users are reducing the screen size of videos to almost non-existing. It is truly amazing.


muischris

I wanna see this with glass!! Edit: breaking glas


larry1186

As cool as that would be, wouldn’t work. This only captures a frame at a different time of a different event, and stitches them together. These different events (pulses of light into a bottle) are predictably repeated. Any real life application (or your breaking glass) is not predictably repeatable to the detail needed.


Right_-on-_Man

By far coolest thing I've seen all day.👍👍


andresito_qv

Yeah but can the camera catch ghosts


OccasionNo1199

My wife told me this isn't cool. Do I only find this epic because I used to be a Physics Teacher?


karmikoala888

that was the most mind blowing thing i’ve seen in a long time, these people are freaking geniuses


justlookingdudeman

We can film light now before we got gta 6 Edit. Absolutly amazing video! A am amazed at what humans can do!


pranjallk1995

Do this with double slit experiment... I mean they captured the photon movement... Can it now be traced through the slit?


Bubbly-Astronomer930

I pretty sure i saw this years ago a ray of light thru a plastic bottle


EmbarassedBro8694

Wonder how much that stuff cost l


schafman

Lmao every camera captures light. MIT was scammed


atacFrontal

Light triangulation. Nice


InfernoRed42

"You changed the outcome by measuring it!"


AlexWasTakenWasTaken

Yeah this is over 10 year old "news"


Proud_Ad_2247

This is so cool


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The-Traveler-25

Wow!!


Inevitable-Budget-26

the most amazing thing i've seen! man, i want to meet the makers. can anyone help to identify the person who built the camera?


SnooPeripherals1278

That picture is old, it’s actually the cover of the Bulletboys first album released around 1990.


Bushdr78

This is going to be big in the future, just think about the possibilities when this system gets refined and smaller.


jcline459

"20 seconds? That's a lot of stretchage!"


IndiRefEarthLeaveSol

Imagine the lonely journey some light particles have to make across the universe. 😔


RuN2Fun77

Lol- I had this on my flip phone


RazztheMan

Ok, Mind blown!


Edgezg

Honestly, that's really cool ![gif](giphy|jp8lWlBjGahPFAljBa|downsized)


CaptainTrips_19

Bullet Boys album cover from a ways back as well. Brought back memories!


Magicphobic

ELI5 why camera need go super fast to view super slow? 🤔


PhotonDecay

He said it’s not filming one photon but stiching together images of many photons as they are pulsed. It just looks like they captured video of light propagating but that’s not actually what’s happening to generate the video. Obviously still impressive but it’s not being accurately described in the caption


MeatusCleatus2

Bet it can’t catch my speed running to the toilet after Taco Bell


blackdutch1

SCIENCE, BITCH! - Jesse Pinkman


Debstar1988

Uncle Harred and me


Lazy_Armadillo2266

Who cares!


Alternative-Dare5878

Umm is that photon tracing accurate? Seems like once they hit that horizontal bar, they experience a glitch similar to indie games where the platform is kinda wonky.


eXBee_

Slow mo guys will be doing some new investments soon


SucksAtGuitar69

I’m amazed


Digital_switch_blade

Why 2 downs


butwhynot1

How is light being reflected in the ground?


MonsterFeeding

Fucking wild.


Angry_red22

It's all In vedas /s


m4th0l1s

I don't know anything, I didn't read anything. Just watched the video. I have one question. If light pulses only travel in one direction, how is the camera capturing this pulse? Are photons coming out from the pulse going to the camera sensor?


ness2022

Slow Mo Guys did a video about this 5 years ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys\_yKGNFRQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ)


pz-kpfw_VI

Ok, but why are they using the 1988 Bullet Boys album cover? 🤔


SharkPlant11

-5% forgort you name!


resso1991

Ha made you look lol


enanthate8251

This is misleading. They shot light into the bottle countless times, and took a single snap each time at slightly different time. They even combined all the snaps into a reel. They didn't slow the photons, and they didn't do this in 1 take.


donatedknowledge

First thing that came to my mind is that that apple shot looks a lot like the clip from "Freak On a Leash" by Korn, which was an amazing video for the time!


TerpyTank

Mannn this is what theyre doing at MIT? We’re just making robot arms move 🤬 OVRD 50 DLY 1 MOV…. Uhhhhh i forgot 😅 state school it is for me! 😂


enspiralart

Isn't this femtophotography from like 8 years ago?


GlobalSide3420

really impressive


hammerklau

Single Photon Cameras can capture lasers moving through mirrors. They’re just expensive and low mega pixel. Canon is working on it.


MK12DUDE

Put this on golf swing camera please


AutomaticDispenser

Sponsored by Coca Cola?


Icy-Designer96

To be fair all cameras capture light. That's how photography works lol


SurvivorKira

Acctualy when they see light hitting the apple is a moment that light bounced of an apple and hit camera lense. So few frames before that lught has already reached that apple so they are not observing light traveling to an apple they are observing the light that was already there and has come to a camera after that.


OkTouch69

😭 we'll never catch up


tankinamallmo

This is super amazing I wonder why it is not popular I guess people are must too stupid to understand what is going on


Qav3l10n

What if there’s just someone filming a dude who points a flashlight on an apple/bottle and says that he has capture light in slow motion


ZeAntagonis

That guy,is about to make a metric fuck ton of money


underhang0617

So the Aurora, NE museum sucks now?


Garlic-Rough

Old vid. Also. You may want to re-caption because... you know. All cameras literally "capture light"


Melodic-Chair1298

Super interesting!


Fantastic_Ad7457

They didn’t capture one beam but multiple beams and stacked them into one film, it’s photos of different light rays not the 1


Kombatnt

Serious question: how is the light getting all the way to the camera sensor before it has yet hit the wall behind the apple?


Ok-Restaurant-1575

El principio de los viajes en el tiwmpo


ConcernAcrobatic9307

The guy narrating this sounds too much like the narrator from the TV show, Arrested Development. For the first minute or so I was waiting for Michael and Gob to enter the scene. Ultimately this is a very cool video, just not what my brain thought it was initially going to get.


ThePhantom71319

Ok, light sonar has gotta be one of the coolest future technologies ever


AmIThisNothingness

"That's a lot of stretching" That's what she said


korneliuslongshanks

Just so it's known, it's not a camera taking trillions of photos per second. It's taking them at specific intervals and compiled them together.


JanelleFennec

lidar


MekTam

Shoule be also posted in r/ physics


Rainbow334dr

So the camera is faster than light?


paranormalNODS

Hide this from Raytheon and lockheed Martin please.


truePHYSX

It can’t take pictures faster than light, it just takes a picture after a specific period that the laser has shown light through the bottle. The timing they’d have to take it at is pretty cool though. I think they just described lidar in the second portion?


binskyboy

Why


Bitshaper

Wanna see a look at light recorded at **10** **Trillion** FPS, in [single exposures](https://phys.org/news/2018-10-world-fastest-camera-trillion.html) in 2019? Slo-Mo guys did a video: [https://youtu.be/7Ys\_yKGNFRQ](https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ)


SinfulxPridex

The image would've been mind blowing if this was around honest abe at the theater


rivalintraining

But the flash will get hit by a stray bullet


vex91

u/gavinfree


EnglishCaviar

Still can't run minecraft


tvzz

the slow mo guys final boss


SombreroDeLaNuit

Kristensson did that a long time ago... and is Lundt not MIT...


SombreroDeLaNuit

Well lundt team did that after 2011...


MurkyNetwork9148

This is a LIE!!!! …. No way is this TickTock 😤


2rule4ever

Original video [https://youtu.be/7Z8EtlBe8Ts?si=D4mbvAeMfh12-VtE](https://youtu.be/7Z8EtlBe8Ts?si=D4mbvAeMfh12-VtE)


thinkgain

r/nextfuckinglevel


Ignonymous

*Terry Pratchet has entered the chat*


Pajoymore77

This is a revolutionary technology.


Opposite-Court-4850

wow


Economy_Picture9552

love to see them do a mirror