Comments on: HEE-NC-64003

By: Claire Calcagno

Claire Calcagno — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:03:24 +0000

See Edgerton’s “Stopping Time” (1987) pp.122-3.

By: Mable Chan

Mable Chan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:55:29 +0000

How can this be???

By: nanako 9year old

nanako 9year old — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:55:21 +0000

awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Greg Zurcher

Greg Zurcher — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:55:40 +0000

Thanks for Sharing! (Both pic and technique)

By: fragile machine

fragile machine — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:51:14 +0000

my favorite (*.*)

By: Meghan B

Meghan B — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:19:20 +0000

Imagine how many shots they had to take.
What happens if they missed shooting the card with the bullet.
They would have to take another shot at the card.
Bang! “dammit i missed”
How many cards of the king of diamonds did they use?

By: Jim Bidigare '78

Jim Bidigare '78 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:34 +0000

How it’s done: A microphone is positioned to catch the shock wave off the bullet. The card is positioned. The rifle is aimed so the bullet’s path will ‘cut’ the card. The room is darkened. The camera shutter is opened. The rifle is fired. When the bullet’s shock wave hits the microphone, it triggers the flash. Then the camera shutter is closed.

I took Doc’s freshman seminar, and he spent a whole Saturday morning helping me with this — something he’d probably done hundreds of times. Every time I asked him about something, he’d say “Well, let’s try it and see.” A wonderful experience!

By: Madaline

Madaline — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:21:59 +0000

I wouldn’t like to know the person who shot that bulet.

By: Scienceboy

Scienceboy — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:58:20 +0000

Wow, the expertise involved here is so immense. This image is so facinating and magnificantly taken.

By: e

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:10:20 +0000

the king is dead ………