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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Making Molecular Movies: 10,000,000,000,000 Frames per Second

December 12, 2006

Abstract: Movies have transformed our perception of the world. With slow motion photography, we can see a hummingbird flap its wings, and a bullet pierce an apple. The remarkably small and extremely fast molecular world that determines how your body functions cannot be captured with even the most sophisticated movie camera today. To see chemistry in real time requires a camera capable of seeing molecules that are one ten billionth of a foot with a frame rate of 10 trillion frames per second! SLAC has embarked on the construction of just such a camera.


How this molecular movie camera will work and how it will change our perception of the molecular world. This lecture is now available for viewing online.

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