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  • Light Seems to Pass through Solid Metal | LiveScience

    From the page: "Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes. That means the light was acting pretty weird.... more

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  • Rated by parvez on Mar 29 2007, 10:19am

    Light traveling backwaters and behaving like water!

  • Rated by challengeme on Mar 29 2007, 5:02am

    Light acting like water. What a cool thing to imagine, right?

  • Rated by starspirit on Mar 29 2007, 12:32am

    From the page: "Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes. That means the light was acting pretty weird. Picture shining a flashlight at your kitchen colander. While some of the light from the flashlight will travel through its holes, the solid part of the colander will keep much of the light from shining through. In contrast, experiments described in the March 28 issue of the journal Nature demonstrated that terahertz radiation--a low-frequency light on the electromagnetic spectrum located between microwaves and mid-infrared regions--traveled around a thin sheet of metal, through patterned holes, and all of it came out the other side. Experts sometimes refer to this radiation as T-rays. "

  • Rated by failon on Mar 28 2007, 11:30pm

    From the page: "Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes."

  • Rated by closedmouth on Mar 28 2007, 8:47pm

    From the page: "Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes."

  • Rated by JohnShepler on Mar 28 2007, 7:11pm

    Sounds like more of that quantum weirdness.

  • Rated by MILKANDDAIRY on Mar 28 2007, 7:04pm

    watery light!

  • Rated by Margir on Mar 28 2007, 1:24pm

    From the page: "Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes."