Wired:
An enterprising photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, captured a series of snapshots -- a filmstrip -- of a horse trotting and definitively settled the question in the affirmative. You can see the horse in-motion and check out the geeky tech from this magazine piece on high speed photography.Fast forward 130 years and we can now split a second into 2,000 of its constituent parts and examine them. One incredible example is the video of the yellow balloon exploding above. At that speed, the water appears much more viscous than it is, holding its shape for a few thousandths of a second before gravity pulls it to the ground.
Cool! Do you still have the photos of that we took of popping water balloons? I had a lot of fun taking those photos with you and we had to wait for the film to be developed to see if any of the photos actually turned out. One, two, three, pop/click!
I don't have them handy, but I'm sure I've still got them in one of my boxes somewhere. I do know exactly where the shoebox full of negatives is.