The lightning video Doug linked to was impressive.
But how about capturing the propagation of light itself at 1 trillion frames per second:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSqFWcb4rE
1 trillion frames per second.
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Re: 1 trillion frames per second.
I actually found the other link on the Slashdot thread about this camera. As they point out, they can't really record at a trillion frames a second with this - that's just the shutter speed. It takes pictures a little later each time for repeated stimuli - just like a digital scope does above a certain sample rate. So it couldn't actually do the lightning which was "only" about 10k frames/second, but they were all consecutive.
Else, they'd be taking movies of stuff like chemical reactions, protein folding - but for the trillion/sec camera, you need something that repeats identically over and over to get the effective rate.
Else, they'd be taking movies of stuff like chemical reactions, protein folding - but for the trillion/sec camera, you need something that repeats identically over and over to get the effective rate.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.