Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave

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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and the light in my head flashed faster

[sheehaje]

Don't know why I thought of it, but as soon as I saw the imaging I thought of Clive Barkers Weaveworld novel. Maybe magic isn't actually magic, and there are reasons, and scientific ones, that people have certain insight that others can't fathom. I definitely don't want to be one of those whack jobs that think the Earth is still flat, but things like this and string theory always keep me wondering if the guy down the street doing LSD and pulling down his pants all the time was really crazy or just had a different sense of perception.