{"id":107856,"date":"2020-05-30T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-camera-captures-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2020-05-31T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:07:47","slug":"this-camera-captures-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-camera-captures-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"This Camera Captures the Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtsXgODHMWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2011<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at M.I.T\u2019s Media lab have created a camera that can capture the speed of light, taking a photo in less than two-trillionths of a second. Using multiple cameras, sensors, a pulse light source and mirrors, the researchers create slow motion movies of light moving through objects and liquids. They call the technique femto-photography. \u201cWe have built a virtual slow motion camera where we can see photons, or light particles through space,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk\">said<\/a> Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar in an video interview. \u201cPhotons travel about a million times photons travel a million times faster than bullets. So our camera can see photons, or bullets of light traveling through space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2011 Scientists at M.I.T\u2019s Media lab have created a camera that can capture the speed of light, taking a photo in less than two-trillionths of a second. Using multiple cameras, sensors, a pulse light source and mirrors, the researchers create slow motion movies of light moving through objects and liquids. They call the technique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107856\/revisions\/107947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}