Most amazing time lapse

[jjjnettie]

Watch as photons travel through a coke bottle. :eyepop:

http://io9.com/5867719/watch-light-particles-travel-through-a-coke-bottle-at-a-trillion-frames-per-second

[gary]

Thanks for the link to the fascinating story Jeanette.

Wonderful to see the legacy of the late great "Doc" Edgerton, the pioneer of high
speed photography, lives on at MIT through this latest development.

[astroron]

Thanks JJJ surely is an amazing experiment:eyepop:
Cheers :thumbsup:

[ballaratdragons]

:eyepop: I see light moving!

Thanks JJ, truly fascinating :)

After watching the 2nd video (the one with the Tomato) I have a totally different appreciation and understanding of a simple shadow.

My normal perception was that a shadow was just the object blocking a contsant stream of light. Its as if the light is still travelling but the object is in the way (if you know what I mean). The light still travelling from the light source is being block hence creating a shadow.

But, watching the video, it shows a single pulse of light which has already passed the tomato and hits the wall, has no following stream of light to create the shadow, yet there is a shadow of the tomato from that pulse of light!
Which has now implanted in my mind the process of the light be absorbed by the tomato (or any object in the light path) and when the rest of the light hits the wall the parts that hit and were absorbed by the tomato are missing.

So, a shadow is NOT cast (as thought by most), it is an absence of light.
It's like a cardboard cut-out! :)

[bloodhound31]

So, this camera proves that we as humans now have faster than light capabilities? If we can get our cameras to go faster than light, can we make our ships go that fast too?

;)

[strongmanmike]

Well, that's up there with the most amazing things seen in a video :eyepop:...(like the Jackass boys sliding around a room on sandpaper with a bare bum :lol:) and relates well to that childhood belief that you could actually turn the light switch off and jump into bed before it got dark....now that woudl make a great sequence with this camera :D

Interesting that a Coke bottle was used, perhaps for the potential sponsorship possibilities :question:.

Great post JJJ

Mike

[Omaroo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, bit I wasn't aware that you could bend a photon off course by introducing an electric field. I'm aware that you can separate a photon into an electron/positron pair - but this isn't controllable - ie. you couldn't "bend" a beam as such, merely scatter it.

Don't know about this one - maybe the original article misinterprets the MIT guys?