There's more to light than meets the eye.

From: Science Scope | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: Falsarella, Carell; McCann, Florence; McCann, Patrick; Pedersen, Jon | Copyright information

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Students huddled around the screen of a digital camera, watching as the camera recorded their teacher pushing buttons on a television remote control. Soon they noticed that a flashing light on the front of the remote control was visible onscreen, but when they looked directly at the light instead of viewing it on the digital-camera screen, the light disappeared. Students looking directly at the remote control in the teacher's hand claimed that the ...

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