Lovers of slow motion video may have been impressed by the time-bending antics of video producers like The Slow Mo Guys or even tried slow motion recording themselves using a consumer-grade high-speed camera or smartphone. However, no camera on the market comes anywhere close to the latest device built at Lunch University which manages to capture over five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) frames in one second.
At this speed it’s possible to capture the movement of ‘light in flight’: In the video below you can actually see the progress of a pulse of light as it passes through water in bottle.