VIDEO: THE FASTEST CAMERA THAT CAN CAPTURE LIGHT AS IT TRAVELS!

Over at MIT, a new camera has been developed that can photograph a trillion frames per second. Compare that with a traditional movie camera which takes a mere 24 frames per second. This advancement in photographic technology has given scientist the ability to photograph the movement of the fastest thing in the Universe... light!!

In the video below you will see experimental footage of light photons travelling 600-million-miles-per-hour through water ( which is mind blowing to see). The actual event occurred in a nano second, but the camera has the ability to shoot it in super-slow-motion down to twenty seconds. 

For some perspective, according to New York Times writer, John Markoff, “If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion moving through the same fluid, the resulting movie would last three years.”

It is impossible to record light directly, so what the camera does it takes millions of scans to react each image. The process has been called Femto-photography and according to Andrea Velten, a researcher involved with the project, “There's nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera.”

Have a look at the footage in the video below to see the fastest camera in the world: