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Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fastest-flash-in-the-west dept.

loconet writes to tell us that a team of researchers have created the shortest-ever flash of light. Weighing in at just 80 attoseconds, this flash has already been used to capture an image of a laser pulse and could possibly be used in the future to capture the electron movement around large atoms.

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  1. Who woulda thought? by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    My God, James Clerk Maxwell was right after all!

    1. Re:Who woulda thought? by vivin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Light is a wave and a particle and therefore, a "wavicle".

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    2. Re:Who woulda thought? by CaptainPatent · · Score: 4, Funny

      My God, James Clerk Maxwell You crazy Slashdotters and your false idols! :-)
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    3. Re:Who woulda thought? by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ergo, test particles are "testicles"?

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    4. Re:Who woulda thought? by turgid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ergo, test particles are "testicles"?

      No, he was a famous ancient Greek philosopher.

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    5. Re:Who woulda thought? by bugnuts · · Score: 4, Funny

      Would that be the famous double-slit experiment?

  2. Re:Duckhunt by andrewd18 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Newsline Saturday: Hundreds of mallard ducks found dead outside residential area; experts believe death caused by epileptic seizures.

  3. Re:Taking a picture of a laser beam and using flas by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it's there. Well.. no... I mean it's "there", now. Oh. I mean by now it's all the way over there...

    Dang! You know what I mean!

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  4. Yep, it's hoax. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is a hoax. see the picture of the light pulse? Well, for one, it's only showing a wave and we all know from physics that light is both a wave and and particle. So where's the particle? Hmmm?

    Secondly, the wave is, well, wavy. And we know, again from physics, that light only travels in a straight line.

    Those damn scientists always trying to fool us! And engineers too!

  5. Re:Duckhunt by PawNtheSandman · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold?

    One's a sick duck and... I can't remember how it ends, but your mother's a whore.

  6. Ummm.. by InlawBiker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate to be a pedantic killjoy, but on that film the light flash lasted about 3 seconds. I could see it pretty well with my naked eye.

    Try again, science!

  7. Re:Duckhunt by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    At which point she laughs?

  8. Re:Duckhunt by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Funny

    My girlfriend tells a joke about ducks. It goes:

    "What's the difference between a grape and a duck?"
    Answer: "Both are purple, except for the duck."

    Yeah, it's stupid, but I laugh, and then she has sex with me.

    Tell her I laughed. How far does she live from Nesher?
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