- Collision physics, through scattering techniques, is really good at measuring the structure of matter. It is hard to imagine a competing technology.
- But collision physics has no systematic method for measuring dynamics.
- By combining collision physics with laser science, attosecond technology provides collision physics with a systematic method to make dynamics measurements with attosecond resolution.
- Although we are at the very beginning, I will propose that we can adapt gating technology, widely used in optics, to the point where all collision dynamics that can be excited by re-collision (this includes nuclear dynamics) will become systematically measurable.