This YouTube Creator Built a Camera That Shows You Don’t Need a Major Lab to Film Light in Motion

This YouTube Creator Built a Camera That Shows You Don’t Need a Major Lab to Film Light in Motion

A YouTube creator working out of his garage has engineered something that is normally found only in major research facilities: a camera capable of filming a laser beam moving at the speed of light. Rather than announcing his technical achievement in an academic journal or press release, materials scientist Brian Haidet published his creation publicly on his YouTube channel AlphaPhoenix. Historically, “light-in-flight” demonstrations were almost …