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- Identiti, on 06/20/2008, -0/+39It's about this long:
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(not to scale) - Gioleb, on 06/20/2008, -6/+38That what she said!
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -5/+32This is not a captured photon (also called a wave), as photons cannot be photographed by definition.
- PoliticalMan922, on 06/19/2008, -5/+28That's kind of cool. And that's really, really short.
- CrushThemTorg, on 06/20/2008, -2/+19I'm not entirely sure how this works. But if I did, I think it would totally blow my ***** mind.
- Sagags, on 06/20/2008, -2/+16guys you can't take a picture of a light wave because light waves don't emit light because they are light!. yes i know it sound very confusing.
all they did here really was fire the light into a cloud of neon gas and took a picture of the effect on the gas, not really a picture of the wave so much as it is a picture of the effect of the pulse on the gas. - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -2/+15rtfa? How about you go read a ***** physics book.
The title clearly says "Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave".
An image of a lightwave cannot exist. Its like saying you've taken the temperature of an atom. Its just stupid, beyond retarded.
It may be a neon cloud emitting pretty patterns but its not a "Light Wave" in the real sense. - loconet, on 06/20/2008, -0/+13Silly me looking for insightful comments about this topic. Back to /. I go..
- rebotfc, on 06/20/2008, -0/+9Depends what you mean by the 'wave' and 'particle'.
What that statement means is that light can be represented by a wave or particle mathematically and also exhibits wave-like and particle-like phenomena.
A wave isn't a 'thing' and in this case a particle isn't a independent small body of mass. - Sagags, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5yea if it was possible to reflect light waves off other light waves, but if that was possible the world would be alot different.
- Virgule, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Wikipedia say "One attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe."
Its like 0.0000000000000000001 second. I think. - mikephimikephi, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5*You're an *****
- Hayaemsay, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Building on what rebotfc said, we call light a wave-particle because it exhibits those properties, and we model it accordingly to predict what light will do in certain situations. It doesn't nessecarily mean it's niether or both, just a way of referring to it's duality.
- ChileanGoD, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Yes
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Yes, it is. - CrushThemTorg, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4I think that was the point, yes.
- juniorb, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Even though I might agree with you in another context, is this really the platform for another digger to bash religion?
- zadadka, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Warp drive for example?
- StylusEcho, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4Anyone got the Guide Number for this in meters?
: D - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3This light wave used as data over fiber optics would translate to about the same amount of useful information from two blondes talking.
- DrSnugglebunny, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Hooray for science!
- Duositex, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3You clearly know better. Stupid scientists and their research.
- thescimitar, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I dugg you up because I felt bad for you. Nobody uses guide numbers anymore. People expect strobes to "just work."
- CrankyHippo, on 06/20/2008, -4/+6in bed
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2That's not something to be proud of.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2That site will publish anything that gets page hits, they are not scientists, they are techies and businessmen that run a website that publishes other people's claims. Wise the ***** up.
- spancho, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I like how the videos are credited to 'Science.'
- stephenhacking, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Since when have they being trying to do this?
- fhernand, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Researchers are happy to announce that an improved technique of 10 watchacallitseconds revealed the true nature of the lightwave
http://a.bebo.com/app-image/6340743444/i.idlestudi ... - jgzman, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Light passes through vacuum as a particle, not a wave. Therefor, it can contain energy without being a wave.
- Satanael, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2What a burger.
- moo2u2, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1if this is real it's gotta be one of the coolest things i've ever seen!
- Duositex, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Well.. technically you're never really taking a picture of anything then. You're simply taking a picture of the effect of the light bouncing off of something and striking some medium be it a CCD, CMOS, film negative etc.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1A photo is composed of the record of many (as in 10 to the 33rd power, guess) photons reaction with chemical agent or on an electronic CCD, when you only have one photon, you have no reaction, or if you do then you have a blank photo with a single dot the size of a photon on it. Which would be undetectable by the human eye. Not an intricate wave formation like shown in that photo.
- Skod, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3If light traveled in a "straight line" it wouldn't be a wave and therefore wouldn't contain any energy. I understand what you're getting at, but don't try to come to a nonsensical conclusion based on something that has been known for centuries.
- IRoaChI, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Straight up Wicked!
- mntbikeracer1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Yep and everything has wave characteristics see that big freakin' area of physics called Quatum Mechanics.
- mntbikeracer1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Correct because if you could actually "see" you will have interacted with it and therefore changed it.
- warsongs7, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Light being both a particle or matter and a wave at the same time is not a "fact" just a rudimentary theory and many physicists have already shown that matter can have wavelengths and frequencies just like so called "waves" (em, water, sound)
On another note it is interesting that the pulse of light looks so much like the segment of a wave which is what most scientists visualised it as. - ChileanGoD, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Now, if we can get a snapshot of the same lightwave thinking about his next move infront of a chess board at the speed of light.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1It is interesting to see the parallel strands in the wave. I don't see an explanation for what this is. Is it the gas being ionized itself, or some sort of redirection of "density" in the direction of the light wave? You can see that there is depth to it, because at bends in the wave, there is some interference-like strands -- basically, the strands on a lower layer not perfectly in sync with the upper layer.
I've always believed there was a non-interactive aether in the universe -- basically the "space/time" that keeps expanding since the big bang. I'd expect to see some evidence as our ability to detect things gets smaller and faster. So, if this isn't some ionizing trail,... I also wonder if there isn't some granularity in strength of the light pulse, at smaller levels than we can detect, perhaps the energy is not homogenous -- could be a future area of storing even more data in light. - sunnyoraish, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1unbelievably short...
- Emmo213, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1FTA: "...attoseconds, the atomic unit of time, defined as how long it takes an electron to travel from one side of a hydrogen atom to the other."
- RoccoMcTaco, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Amazing! It looks like a.......wave of light!
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Cool nonetheless. - 1ncu3us, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I like the cut of your jib!
- BitKid, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Kind of cool? This is seriously a breakthrough. You heard it here first.
- Ryan0617, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Can you explain why it cannot be photographed, question from the noob :(
- otis12, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1A bit confusing but really cool!
- darksydxx, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Six Flags! More flags more fun !
- jfeninygo, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0I could have done this in Photoshop as well.
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