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In college, I took a 19th century Literature course (strictly because a literature course was "required"). What became very evident to...

This piece was published in 1921, so five years after Einstein wrote "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" for a general...

Very good. So GR used its first dibs on Alice in Wonderland by claiming the Mad Hatter. Then about 90 years later QM staked its claim...

If I catch the spirit of you question, you will be gratified to discover that one can design a laser that will continue to operate as it...

He didn't say the mirrors, he said "the ionized gas, crystal, or semiconductor" that's pumping energy into the beam. No real mirror is...

The answers above are correct. Just adding a safety note: any laser above ~500 mW (Class 4) requires proper eye protection, not just...

There are two kinds of lasers, continuous wave (CW) and pulse. Since you're thinking of CW, that is what I will address. Most CW...

My backyard has "frontage" to a swamp - where there are many Common Snapping turtles. That's where I canoed past the really big one...

I never gave much thought about the species range of snapping turtle until I read this article - about a snapper found a few miles north...

I do not understand what you are doing. I have taken many 2D DFT of images - there is nothing inherently "temporal" about the process...

You would need to contact the manufacturer to get an authoritative answer. But I would guess it is micro-OLED technology. Micro-OLED...

And, as you can tell from the image in @berkeman's post, this is the helmet that Darth Vader will be upgrading to.

That level of brightness would refer to the helmet display - where supplemental information needs to be visible even against direct...

It's easy for me to imagine that green/yellow/red is foreground facing "out" and the light/dark blues are a view of the background...

I never heard it, but it's in my part of the world. They tracked its splash down spot to a fairly precise location in Cape Cod bay...