photoxels
From cameraculturegroup
How do you capture an image of a photon? It doesn’t make sense really since photons are the stuff light is made of and they are what illuminate objects and reflect back into our eyes so that we can see. So what would you use to capture an image of a photon — or light? We see objects that reflect light, but what does light itself look like?
MIT researchers have used a special camera called a streak camera that operates at a whooping trillion frames per second to visualize light. Aside from that, we don’t understand zilch.
Go ahead, get your fill of this fascinating subject at: mit.
