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  • Ian Dalziel,

    Real excited photons!
    Now this particular breakthrough in light infotainment has to be useful ...

    University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will publish its work online June 1 in Nature Physics

    Mankind has used reflection of light from a metal mirror on a daily basis for millennia, but the quantum mechanical magic behind this familiar phenomenon is only now being uncovered.
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    Excitons, particles of light-matter interaction where light photons become transiently entangled with electrons in molecules and semiconductors, are known to be fundamentally important in processes such as plant photosynthesis and optical communications that are the basis for the Internet and cable TV. The optical and electronic properties of metals cause excitons to last no longer than approximately 100 attoseconds* (0.1 quadrillionth of a second). Such short lifetimes make it difficult for scientists to study excitons in metals, but it also enables reflected light to be a nearly perfect replica of the incoming light.

    *For context, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 31.71 billion years, or more than twice the age of the universe. - that's a hell of a refresh rate!

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    It's always a source of wonder to me, the way rainbows and reflections are individualised communions, and communicatications - optic nerve-centric photonic barrages - yet coherent signals.
    They move with you, everything is relative!

    we walk in light...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    we walk in light…

    some simply sit in light

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    Now this particular breakthrough in light infotainment has to be useful

    Looks like the letterbox predictor got it right then....

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report

  • Jos,

    Wow I would love a future indicator like that, though I'd make every choice nice and happy to start the day on a good note. No Dice Man choices for me..

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report

  • Jos,

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    Still life at the Heads

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Jos,

    Still life at the Heads

    Beautiful.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Nora Leggs,

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    still life at Heads much more picturesque than this still life at Northern Club

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report

  • Jos,

    That's probably a bag of anonymous party donation money...

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report

  • Jos,

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    Where borer have been eating the glue between a photo and the cardboard it had been applied to, they used to use horses' hooves to melt down into adhesive, yum say the insects. There were few holes through the photo thank goodness, easy to fix.

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    still life with Muppet head in sack at Northern Club

    fixed that for ya...

    :- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    Muppet head in sack at Northern Club

    Ha!

    Northern Club escapee (otherwise know as Loafer)

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report

  • Jos, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    :) perfect!

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    There is …
    Still life in the backyard
    Still life in the frontyard
    And...
    still life at Taipa Beach

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Lilith __, in reply to Jos,

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    horses’ hooves

    Keep your photos away from flying hoofs!

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Tiny beer

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report

  • JacksonP,

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    Saw these flowers at the dairy, and thought they needed to be captured for posterity.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report

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