Light Accelerating (VIDEO)

University of the Witwatersrand

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Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have demonstrated that laser light traveling along a helical path through space, can accelerate and decelerate as it spins into the distance. Here the light is accelerating.

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Andrew Forbes/Wits University

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