Here’s another example of why science is awesome.
We now have a crazy cool camera that can take photographs at the rate of 100 billion frames per second. That’s down in the realm of picoseconds. Here’s one of the photos from a series– it shows a pulse of laser light bouncing off a mirror.
That blobby thing at the top right is a bundle of photons. That’s right: we can actually see the photons in motion because even light moves slowly when your clock is ticking in picoseconds. That’s absolutely freaking amazing.