We are limited by our senses, but also by our sense of time. Here’s a wonderful example of a scientific instrument that allows us to understand something beyond both.
We can’t see much detail at the very tiny scale, and the action happening here is too fast for us to perceive anyway. Enter the high-speed video camera: suddenly the universe becomes a little clearer.
I know I’ve made this point before, and I have no plans to ever stop.
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