Wired has a brief article that shows just how far high speed photography has come in the last 120 or so years. We’ve gone from the (then miraculous) 6 millisecond (10^-3) shutter speed of the galloping horse in 1887 to the current 110 attoseconds (10^-18) image of electron drift. Amazing stuff.
The photo that they have of a nuclear blast reminds me of an electron microscope image of some nasty virus/mutagen. It really is a fractal world.
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