High-Speed Photography to the Attosecond

Laser cameras are upping the ante on Harold Edgerton's bulett through the laying card of old:

"Capturing images of fleeting events—a horse's gallop, a bullet's impact, an electron's escape—is easy if you have the right equipment. Faster camera shutters used to be enough, but recently lasers have let physicists break the femto- and attosecond barriers, compressing the temporal resolution of images down to the time it takes light to cross a hydrogen atom."

[You'll find images at: Wired]