Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS

i'm not sure i believe this, all of the equipment involved in capturing this is also moving at the speed of light or slower. I am having issue with it being able to operate faster in order to capture it.

"I thought that was mindblowing"
"Well, I thought it was MINDblowing"

Love being the only non cringe person here that doesn't feel anything seeing this

WOW

That's really mindblowing that we came all the way from the caves to seeing light slow motion with mechanical eyes.

Very cool. I thought for sure you would calculate the speed of light based on the video. I slowed down the last movie and it looks like about 3.1 picoseconds to cover 1mm which is close to 3x10^8 m/s, but I was just trying to estimate based on a rough visual. It's also hard to tell where the beginning of the light is since there is a gradient in the image.

Never thought I'd be seeing light travel in my life time

Are you sure?

can you use this to measure the 1 way speed of light? According to Veritasium, the speed of light can only be measured 2 ways.

Wonder if you could film a dark room,turn the light on and see it slowly filling the room?

i love the image of the slow mo at the speed of light aka 10 trillion frames per second video. whiplash from the slowing down of the properties of milk, along with the constant input of light at different transitioning speeds adding to the whiplash, the deformation of the spherical property of light as it traverses the new environment it is in that affects its velocity and is constantly fed photons of light aka the laser. even then how many seconds of light did you let go through that mini milk container for the 10 trillion frame rate camera? physics really did come together and show itself off that day. amazing

One day they will be able to measure the infinitely small increment of time between the traffic light changing to green and the person behind you hitting their horn.

Nobody seems to point out, that this is evidence that the standard model cannot be correct.
Its a scientific revolution filmed on camera.

I've done some maths and I've found that with the slow mo guys' new camera, the 7510, filming at its max framerate of 1.75 million fps, would capture light moving at around 170 meters per frame - with some setup they could probably use the phantom to actually capture light travelling!

Imagine smartphone camera that can record at trillion frames per second.

Bro when skill issue: "Dude, I swear I was lagging!"

This guy's computer:

seeing something travel a millimeter that revolves the earth 7 times a sec is insane

To think we’d have to travel this fast for 4 years straight just to reach the nearest star. That’s how big space is and it’s mind blowing.

i still cant believe in what i see..

Goddammit, I just want to see the clip of the traveling photon, not meet any personalities. Give credits at the end, or in the description!!

TIL the speed of light looks like the 90s movie intro

I remember the 70s and 80s.
Black holes were purely theoretical, everyone knew we would never, ever ne able to see one. Atoms were far too small to ever be seen, controlled nuclear fusion was pure silliness and the idea that one day we would be able to take a video of a beam of light as it travels along didn't even enter the minds of anyone except a few crazy people who had taken some exceptional acid or shrooms.
Yes we didn't get flying cars or bacofoil suits, but the future we're living in has some really cool stuff in it that I'm really enjoying.

why are there areas of brighter light as it moves across the screen?

What may be described as 'impossible' may only seem to be impossible today. Generations from now, impossible shall become possible. All those generations of impossible things have indeed become possible. Photos. Videos. Flight. Space flight. Talking to someone in another room...in some other house, in some other country....all impossiblities overcome by the minds of someone who wouldn't let impossible stand in their way. Physics? Don't let it kid you.

I wont lie, far less interesting than I expecrted.

what 9 year olds on fortnight expect the frame rate to be (anything lower is unplayable):

Shouldn't it be thought of as a vector, or tensor field? Instead of merely a subatomic particle with certain characteristics? I'm sure all of the equations still apply, but it seems silly to forget about vector and tensor analysis when light is under examination. The vector of light seems a more suitable term, rather than the speed.

This is mind blowing. When I graduated with my physics degree I never imagined I would live to see the day humanity could accomplish this! I would recommend doing a double slit experiment with this camera, it should be awesome!

Still with windows XP...

The speed of light, is also affecting how they record the light falling on the object and bouncing back to lense of camera. Hmm interesting 😂

It's a wave

Que porc4ri1a oO...

why does the light not seem to move in a straight line?

I noticed that the light didn't just move across the space but it seemed to pulse forward or slink forward if you will. Is it so that light doesn't travel at a consistent pace?

Wow! From the reflective cavity video, it seems that light is a particle. Do you have the videos without composting the images?

That's a mighty expensive magnifying glass mate 😮

Maybe I don’t understand how light works but shouldn’t a concave mirror spread out a laser light that bounces off of it? Cause it doesn’t. They show the laser pulse bounce off a concave mirror several times without changing its trajectory as though it was bouncing off a flat mirror or a solid object bouncing off a curved mirror.

Me watching in 2023: that's kinda slow. Attoseconds have taken over.

this means there is something else faster than light.

blud is using windows 7 in a top research facility😭

We play games in 30 fps only what happene when we play in 1 billion 😊

was that little "wobble" in the blob of the final shot the LITERAL WAVE of that light pulse???

Imagine the file size

meow

MIT has a faster Camera they’re the ones with the 70 Trillion FPS Camera

The seed of light is constant 186,000 miles per second

Their camera actually does 70 trillion frames per second or one of their CUSP Camera’s can

I really want to see the famed double-slit experiment filmed through this camera! To actually witness the dual particle-wave behavior at this speed.