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1 posted on 02/25/2018 8:20:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Does that mean we’ll have to walk on our hands now to see things correctly, or do we just get used to it?


2 posted on 02/25/2018 8:37:15 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin; Dead Corpse; NicknamedBob

NOT my fault.


3 posted on 02/25/2018 8:42:52 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BenLurkin

This could make the custom car painting people go bananas!..............


4 posted on 02/25/2018 8:45:02 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is this like the back side of waterfalls?

rwood


5 posted on 02/25/2018 8:50:36 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: BenLurkin

Just think of what they could do with a convex mirror and a prism.....


6 posted on 02/25/2018 8:51:11 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: BenLurkin

I will have my Harry Potter cloak


7 posted on 02/25/2018 8:53:32 AM PST by goldendelicious
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To: BenLurkin

Hm


8 posted on 02/25/2018 8:59:40 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll await Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s comments.


13 posted on 02/25/2018 9:24:21 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BenLurkin
with completely reshaped wafefronts

On The Waferfront was a good movie. A photon says "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."

15 posted on 02/25/2018 9:30:43 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: BenLurkin

Wondering how the ‘photos’ were generated, I found this:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/2-d-material-makes-theoretical-manipulation-of-light-a-reality

Illustrations, NOT PHOTOS.


16 posted on 02/25/2018 9:30:52 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: BenLurkin

Like normal light, does the light in it’s altered wave forms have an infinite distance it can possibly travel (if not otherwise disrupted)? Or are the light-wave-forms ONLY “observable” at very small distances? Are they wave forms less disrupted by planetary and solar atmospehere’s than “normal” light? More questions about practical applications?


19 posted on 02/25/2018 9:55:27 AM PST by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

Traveling at The Speed of Dark!


22 posted on 02/25/2018 10:22:53 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: BenLurkin
But now researchers have found that it is possible to alter light's wavefronts and to give them a completely new shape.

But will it out shine the Tac Light?

23 posted on 02/25/2018 10:31:26 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: BenLurkin

Big deal. I’ve turned light upside down dozens of times; the problem is the bulb won’t screw into the socket and, as a result, upside down light is pretty dark.


26 posted on 02/25/2018 11:27:25 AM PST by DPMD
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To: BenLurkin

“Scientists Turn Light Upside Down”

Sailors turned over a table.

Big deal.


28 posted on 02/25/2018 1:53:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

This technology seems related to the metamaterials that have a negative index of refraction for microwaves. If so one for visible light is almost here.


34 posted on 02/26/2018 8:00:11 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

Researchers suggest that the same method can also be applied to other materials, which could pave the way for better sensing and signal processing optical devices.

...

That would be great if there’s a practical application.


39 posted on 02/26/2018 10:23:44 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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