1,000,000,000th Of A Second | Yellow Swordfish

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The detail in this photo seems to me to almost be an entire small universe. It leaves me speechless that the men who first split the atom did not know that the explosion would stop at splitting a single atom or whether a chain reaction would occur that could unravel all life on earth. What right... more

Reviewed by melvapraxis Jun 20 2008, 04:13am ( 70 reviews ) • yellowswordfish.com

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Rated by PurposefulStride on May 11 2009, 7:07pm

What awful and unenlightening commentary. Read these for actual information on Harold Edgerton, the Rapatronic camera, and what you're actually seeing in those photos: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect
Rated by kenninger on Apr 08 2009, 7:52am

Nice
Rated by an2net on Nov 08 2008, 12:20am

A nanosecond after the explosion of an atomic bomb...
Rated by Predawn on Oct 27 2008, 4:21pm

Duplicate content
Rated by jatounit on Oct 24 2008, 2:55pm

The actual article is not nearly interesting as a bunch of wanna-be geniuses argue over who is right in the comments.
Rated by tuffghostsu on Oct 23 2008, 3:45pm

G-money.
Rated by sosh on Sep 03 2008, 12:54pm

For all you geniuses moaning about the timing. 1,000,000,000th of a second is the shutter speed. The milliseconds is about the time after detonation that the image was taken. Not related.
Reviewed by docknight on Sep 01 2008, 9:49pm

forget the math the pics r nice even if they r old

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