Whilst Yogi, may be smarter that the average bear [link], his certainly not faster than your average photon but I guess that's really like comparing apples with flying saucers, although capture is invovled in both processess. My point is this is pretty crazy actaully been able to see the lighting effect as a result of a passing photon over various surfaces. Literally to be able to see the passage of light. The capture technology using a effective shutter speed of 2 trillionths of a second was developed by the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab. I love how you don't have to be a rocket scientist to appreciate the beauty in the video but would have had to to design the technology.
Here is the TED Talk given by Ramesh Raskar talking about the potential of this technology with a much higher res image of the above video and a few others for good measure.
You can read the full scientific abstract of the experimental device here [link]
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