1.000.000.000.000 (1 Billion/Trillion) FPS!!! "Ultra High-Speed Camera" HD
Why Physics Stack Exchange recommends it
Physics Stack Exchange users link it as a visual example of light propagating like a wave, especially in questions about ultra-high-speed cameras and capturing relativistic effects.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What it is
A 13-minute compilation of footage from the MIT Media Lab's trillion-frames-per-second camera, which captures a pulse of light travelling through a plastic bottle at about 1.71 picoseconds per frame. The video was uploaded by the Orion17 channel and links to MIT news coverage and Ramesh Raskar's group.
What people said
Cites unsym · 2017-09 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “What are the difficulties of constructing a camera with $3.10^{8}$FPS?”
No difficulty. There is already camera that can captures more than $10^{15}$ FPS (i.e. $<1fs$). The real difficulty is to store lots of frames because of the memory limitation, which means the time duration is very short. With such speed, you can see the light propagation like a wave, with wavefront [this video] . Other than that, there are not much nature of light you can study. High speed camera, however, can be very useful for the study of physical phenomena such as molecular motion, some explosions, etc.
Cites Prof. Legolasov · 2018-01 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Special Relativity captured on a video recording”
In this youtube video [this video] , a group of MIT scientists provide a (computer-corrected, but still) ultra-high-frame-rate video recording of the light beam traveling through an object (a plastic bottle). The possibility of making such an experiment makes me wonder if it is possible to capture some of the effects of special relativity using high-speed photography? Let me elaborate on what I have in mind a bit. Choose a medium with the desired refractive index to make "objects" (essentially consisting of shaped light beams) traveling with near-$c$ velocities. Then, unless I'm missing something, using high-speed photography, effects such as relativity of simultaneity and Lorentz contraction can
Cites Winston · 2019-05 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Would an observer going faster than the speed of light in a vacuum be able to observe photons that they emit?”
Well first from a theoretical perspective you cannot reach this speed at all, as this would require an infinite energy. There is an interesting video that show light propagation in slow motion: [this video]