missed it,
well you would not have if you had this piece of kit, a
video camera that records a trillion frames a second! so how does it do it?
firstly remove all of the clunky mechanical bits and use optics instead, the
new camera is known as STAMP for Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping
Photography and it is over a thousand times faster than any previous video
recorder, the brains behind the camera is Keiichi Nakagawa who wanted to observe
the effects of acoustic shock waves on living cells, so with colleagues from an
array of Japanese research institutions he built the camera, another use for the
camera was when excited with a laser beam, atoms will begin to vibrate and
these waves of vibration will propagate through the crystal at astounding
rates, on the order of 30,000 miles per second, until now, we have never been
able to directly observe such behaviour, but now such secrets will be reviled,
just think one trillion frames a second, wait a second how big will the memory
card have to be for a one minuet recording?
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