06-26-2008, 11:23 PM
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Fastest "camera" takes a picture of light wave
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06-26-2008, 11:30 PM
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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!
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06-27-2008, 02:41 AM
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Cool . . . this makes me miss 3rd semester physics
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06-27-2008, 04:14 AM
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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! 
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06-27-2008, 04:21 AM
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(Inner Nerd Speaking) Damn that's amazing.!!!
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06-27-2008, 08:04 AM
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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!
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06-27-2008, 08:53 AM
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06-27-2008, 10:09 AM
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Very nice... I will have to re-read my optical physics book.
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06-28-2008, 09:21 PM
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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.
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06-29-2008, 10:29 AM
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where do we buy these camera's from 
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06-29-2008, 11:59 AM
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wow amazing! now it's for real light is a wave and not just theory 
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06-30-2008, 02:08 AM
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Originally Posted by 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.
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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.
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06-30-2008, 02:38 AM
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^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
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