yeah yeah thats great and all but why don't they put this technology to some really good use and film cats falling off shit instead?

Its a cool simulation I guess

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Uh. Sure guys.

You don't even have to think about this very hard to realize how fake it is. How much light do you think can get through a camera's lens in a trillionth of a second?

I'll give you a hint: it's not enough to render a scene of a tomato sitting on a table that appears this bright.

If you did manage to record it somehow, where would you even store the video? Even if each frame is only 1 kilobyte, you're looking at 1 petabyte per second of video.

The electrical impulses in a camera move at less than c because of the physical medium. This presents obvious challenges to recording pulses of light hitting a tomato.

There are other, more subtle issues, such as the actual frequency spectrum of visible light being less than the supposed framerate here. There's no telling what that would make it look like, but I guarantee it wouldn't look like smoothly-flowing pretty white light.

Normally I don't care if a video is fake, if it's funny or generally entertaining in some way. But all things considered, a video of someone shining a flashlight on a tomato just doesn't cut it.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html
This is actually quite neat.

It suffers from the same problem almost all science suffers from, and that is basically that the sort of assholes who write science articles oversimplify everything, and the sort of assholes who read science articles then conclude that it's all a hoax.