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Technology Reversal Illustrates the Progression of Time

March 19, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

    A photograph can preserve a moment well past a lifetime, inscribing it with the indelible ink of light. Because it has the power to make time stand still, photography is our ultimate defense against mortality. Part of the magic of photography is in the physics of this art form. Wave packets of light bounce off of a countenance and race through a piece of curved glass to smack into a layer of chemicals and leave a trace of […]

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