Envisioning Light’s Movement

Here’s a visual that might help us see light’s movement in a new way—though it’s from a funny source. In this video, from our perspective, we’re able to see light’s full circumference. But imagine we lived in “Flatland.” Let’s say our sight encompassed only the flat plane from the screen’s left to the screen’s right. What would a rotating beam of light look like?

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