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Shadows do not actually cut perfectly stark, cleanly black lines across a brightly lit surface. Due to the completely unavoidable bending of light…
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Despite what your reflection tells you, standard mirrors are not flawlessly silver and perfectly neutral. Thanks to the chemical makeup of the glass layer,…
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We like to think of light as an untouchable cosmic speedster, but in 1851, Hippolyte Fizeau proved you can actually drag it. By shooting a beam of light…
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While everyone else was arguing about light behaving like a continuous wave, Albert Einstein stubbornly asserted it was actually made of tiny distinct…
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Using nothing but a completely absurd array of ordinary mirrors, you can forcefully condense scattered sunlight into an aggressive optical death ray. It…
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A single suspended droplet of water naturally acts as a completely flawless, aggressive spherical lens. Because of the extreme curvature, the light wildly…
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