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Light, as you know, has the highest speed in The universe. No living creature, for example, on our planet able to notice his movement, including man. However thanks to high-tech modern cameras, the movement of this electromagnetic radiation can be captured on video.
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, created just such a unique the camera. Innovative device capable of shooting video at a frequency trillion frames per second. That’s almost forty-two million times more than standard cameras that capture twenty four frames per second.
In the video below, you can see experimental shooting of the movement of photons in distilled water. The speed of light in a liquid was six hundred sixty six million kilometers per hour. In real time all that happening on video lasted a nanosecond. One nanosecond for comparison, refers to one second in the same way as a second – to thirty two years old. Of course, the human eye is not able see this, so the shooting was slowed so that the movie lasted twenty seconds. According to the researchers, if they were shooting like a bullet flying, then the resulting video would last as much as three years.
It is noteworthy that Japanese scientists from Keio University and Tokyo Research Center decided to “surpass” achievement of American scientists and therefore plan in the near future create a much more sensitive camera that can shoot four and a half trillion frames per second.
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