The Scientific Mystery of How Sound Explodes into Light

We've seen the Pistol shrimp snap its claws so fast that you can only see it at 10,000 frames-per-second, but the little guy's trick is even wilder than just that. A Pistol shrimp can actually snap its claw so fast that sound turns into light, and scientists still don't know how that's even possible.

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