Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.

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Likewise, one learns to cope with the infinitely dimensional space of quantum theory.

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