Fastest "camera" takes a picture of light wave

[HeilSvenska]

http://technology.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn14172/dn14172-1_350.jpg
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14172-fastestever-flashgun-captures-image-of-light-wave.html

[styla21]

The inner-nerd in me is released when reading things like this... Unbelievable.
Unfortunately, I couldn't understand much past the second paragraph. :-)

How they record something that is 2.5billionths of a millionth of a second blows my mind!

[79TA]

Cool . . . this makes me miss 3rd semester physics

[thiago]

Tenth of a second??? That's so last century! Now they can do an even better job in telling who's the fastest driver down to the attoseconds! :laugh:

[5vz-fe]

(Inner Nerd Speaking) Damn that's amazing.!!!

[Carbodiox]

Works a bit like laser (these mirrors and 'pumping' neon) It's good fun. I am going to ask my biophisics professor on monday how it's gonna afect electron and skanning microscopy mentioned in article.

Great find Heil!

[Erez]

:ohmy:

[arguapacha]

Very nice... I will have to re-read my optical physics book.

[Spiffu]

So they've basically made a camera that can intercept light beams coming from a source mid light. (traveling 186,000 miles/second)

Yeah that's definitely something for the record books.

[Pokiou]

where do we buy these camera's from :P

[silentm]

wow amazing! now it's for real :) light is a wave and not just theory :D

[79TA]

So they've basically made a camera that can intercept light beams coming from a source mid light. (traveling 186,000 miles/second)

Yeah that's definitely something for the record books.

I like it when the speed of light is expressed in miles per second. It puts it in perspective so much better than the 3 times 10 to the eighth meters per second that is often used.

[Carbodiox]

^i like it expressed in kph because than it's comarable with speeds like 200kph on highway wich is bloody fast and than u realise that electromagnetic wave (light) goes ~ 1080000000kph