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. Please join me as I discuss how this molecular movie camera will work and how it will change our perception of the molecular world.
Comment: Great introduction to a very promising field. Imagine seeing chemical reactions being made into movies! Wouldn’t that improve our understanding of nature?
Video is available at a low streaming rate and can be recorded by RealPlayer 11. Lecture is pitched at a very basic level. High School Physics should be sufficient.
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