I wrote an article about a paper I read in the journal Science a few weeks ago – the article was about Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by A Slow Light Medium. I got two handfuls of emails about the article, so I got in contact with one of the original paper's editors, Sonja Franke-Arnold. When [...]
Read More anisotropic, calcite, Crazy Friday Science, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-ArnoldRemember that scene in the Jody Foster movie called Contact when they got all of those drawings of "the machine?" There was a part of the movie where Ellie realized that the images were encoded somehow, and the key to encoding them was by looking at them in three dimensions. Remember that minute little detail? [...]
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