RE: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:32:12 -0500
From: David Thomson <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Tesla list' <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

Hi Bill,

> At the "Museum of Mysteries" in Seattle, people are always 
> bringing in these same photos.  But there's no mystery.  The 
> explanation is simple.
> Some cameras have a mode where they first fire the xenon 
> flash, then they leave the shutter open for quite some time 
> in order to fill in the dim background.   If the camera is
> handheld, then the photographer often will take these flash
> pictures, then wave the camera around while the lens is
> still open.   Any light sources will become "streamers."   

Then why doesn't the rest of the picture blur similarly?  Is the
speed of light different from a street light (which is not even
in the camera's field of view) than it is when reflecting off the
Tesla coil?

David W. Thomson 
Quantum AetherDynamics Institute