Femtophotography.
I've always been impressed with the 1/millionth second photography. Bullets through apples, milk splashing, stuff like that. It's still amazing.
But it hadn't occurred to me how we could use lasers and digital cameras hooked up to serious computer processing to take faster pictures.
We can view images of light passing through small semi-transparent substrates in
Watch this video, and be awed:
Labels: science, things you find on the InterWeb, Truth is stranger than fiction, video, yay us
posted by Matt G @ 8:29 AM
4 Comments:
Neat, and it WILL change how we look at things...
And next time, warn us that this takes as long as a NOVA presentation, so I can get comfortable. But it is fascinating.
I had thought, when I saw an 11 minute video, that I would be quickly bored. I was wrong. This is spectacular. Of course, the solider in me immediately considered applications for room clearing...
Woah. Mind blown.
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