After witnessing the image of a mosquito in a laser beam outside, I decided to investigate the phenomenon further. I started by locating scuzzy water. Ponds lacking, I decided to take water out of the bowl of my 6 year old spider plant. I then filled a syringe and hung it above a laser so that a drop of water, almost ready to fall, was in the beam path. Below is the incredibly complex apparatus involving a book, sticky-tac, a random bottle, a 250mW laser, and a syringe.
When I turned it on, I shat brix. A picture wouldn’t do justice to show what I saw. There was bacteria, eating, swimming, fighting. It wasn’t in great detail due to diffraction and other light artifacts, yet it was still awesome. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million.
