I recently watched a Nova documentary about String Theory. It reminded me of one of the fireworks pictures I took on NYE.

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I have no idea what those little curly things are or how they became part of the image. I’m sure there is a rational explanation for it but I can’t explain it. The little strings are supposed to be extremely small – a billion of them would be smaller than the head of a pin – so it doesn’t even make sense that they would be as large as they are in the picture. I just found it thought provoking. Maybe someone familiar with slow shutter speed photography will know what caused them to appear in the image.