Annie, Are You Ok?

Life is good. And I am happy.

I'm fine with owning Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits and keeping Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean on repeat. Just sayin. That's fine by me.

All right. And nerd science moment commences, but I PROMISE it's cool! Ok, so the above picture is an example of some brand spanking new technology called the Streak Camera (developed by MIT), which processes light at a trillion frames per second (fps). Just to put this into perspective, the human eye can only process light at 10-12 fps. Movies (which undeniably seem like continuous motion) are double our perception at 24 fps. However, WE, my friend, just developed something that is faster than the speed of light..... I mean, LOOK AT THIS PICTURE!!! The picture BELOW is literally a picture of individual light particles passing through an empty bottle of coke and bouncing off the cap..... What?!!!! My mind is blown. I don't know what all this means for us, but I feel like this is potentially more of a scientific breakthrough than it is one of photography. Ok, nerd moment is over now.