MIT researchers have created a camera which can take images so fast - one trillion of them in just a second - that it can capture light as it travels across objects.
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which thanks to the work of scientific legends such as Leon Foucault and Einstein, we know to be 299,792,458 metres per second in a vacuum.
But developers at MIT have managed to catch up, with their camera taking so many images that, when you play them in sequence at super-low-speed, you can see a light beam as it travels from A to B.
The fascinating video below was demonstrated at a TED technology conference in Edinburgh.
It shows a burst of light traveling the length of a one-litre Coke bottle, bouncing off the cap, before then reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom.
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