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Slowing Down A Light Beam With A Camera That Shoots A Trillion Frames Per Second
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| Date: | 2011-12-14 04:28:18 |
| Blog: | Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal  |
| URL: | http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2011/12/14/slowing-down-a-light-beam-with-a-camera-that-shoots-a-trillion-frames-per-second/ |
Summary:
There is an amazing video out tonight on YouTube from the MIT Media Lab. They’ve developed a camera that can make an exposure of only two trillionths of a second! We all know light travels about 300,000 km each second, and that breaks down to about 300 meters in a millionth of a second. This means it’s possible with this camera to make a movie of a light beam moving …Content analysis:
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300 meters, amazing video, camera, Frames Per Second, light beam, millionth, MIT Media Lab, Shoots, Uncategorized, YouTube
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