[Moonman62]

Cool stuff, but I don’t believe he’d be able to image light packets in a vacuum. We’re seeing the light from air molecules retransmitting some of the energy.

[verum ago]

Cool stuff, but I don’t believe he’d be able to image light packets in a vacuum. We’re seeing the light from air molecules retransmitting some of the energy.

Yup. What we're seeing is reflection and scatter (notice that the fluid in the coke bottle was milky?). We can only "see" the photon packet because it's losing photons that eventually end up hitting the sensor in the camera. No photon loss (i.e. vacuum) no image. I'd love to see him run a slow-mo of light hitting the classic prism/refraction demonstration...