Imagine being able to photograph the movement of the fastest thing in the universe, light! A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second! To fathom this suffice it to say that light photons travel 600 million miles per hour! For even more perspective, according to New York Times writer, John Markoff, “If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion moving through the same fluid, the resulting movie would last three years”. Now with this advancement, you can see the light photons travelling through water in this experimental footage. It is impossible to directly record light so the camera takes millions of scans to recreate each image. The process has been called ‘femto-photography’ and according to Andrea Velten, a researcher involved with the project, ‘There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera’!