Shining an appropriate light on such a wire from the outside would alter its refractive index (a measure of how fast light travelling inside the wire can move).
Originally designed as the Diamond I and manufactured by Mitsubishi in the early 1980s, the fast, light-cabin Japanese jet was purchased by Hawker Beechcraft Corporation and modified to become the Beechjet 400, the 400A and eventually the Hawker 400XP.
She's big, she's kind of a morning-after mess, but she sure is light and fast.
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If I could build a camera fast enough to analyze light at high speeds in room-sized environments, I knew we could then create cameras to solve major problems in scientific and consumer imaging, and enable completely new functionality.
The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum.
It certainly must be socially useless to have so much lightning-fast yacking traveling at the speed of light.
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While the Indonesian economy was growing fast, it was possible to make light of the Suhartos' rent-seeking ways.
At F2.8-4 wide open, this fast lens is perfect for low-light photography or scenes beckoning a beautiful bokeh effect.
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Another important factor in the latest round of thin vs. thick (lots more storage and processing capability) clients is that the current generation of mobile devices offer light weight attractive packaging, fast access to content (no wait for boot and application changes) and reasonable battery life (although this is an area of much needed development).
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Cisco Though a laggard in optics, it has seen the light and is buying talent at a fast pace.
It was dreamy weather for intimacy, with the gusts, the torrents and occasional glimpses of flinty light, but I was moving too fast, on my own timeline, detouring to small towns or a ruin or a lighthouse, no discussion needed.
But look out: Demand for SUVs, while still very strong, is flattening (see chart, below), while overall light-truck plant capacity is still growing fast.
The bill has proposed a definition of a high hedge at two metres, formed by a row or two of evergreens, such as the fast-growing leylandii, which forms a barrier to light.
Additionally, Superior Auto shooting mode has been improved to recognize and optimize settings in an even wider range of shooting situations including very low-light scenes and instances where a subject is in fast motion.
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"The Department's understanding of the facts underlying Fast and Furious became more developed, particularly as evidence came to light that was inconsistent with the initial denials provided to Department personnel, " Holder wrote Thursday.
The light signal is consisted of a blinking pattern that flickers too fast for humans to see.
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This year the concept cars of interest are environmentally friendly, light-weight, fuel-efficient, compact, and incredibly fast.
Astrophysicists can determine how the blazar grew brighter in different parts of the spectrum at different times and refine their models of how fast-moving particles within the jets give rise to the high-energy light.
The green light means councils can now begin laying cables that will bring super-fast speeds to rural areas although many are yet to choose a network provider.
PwC then asks the key question: in the light of these figures, what has to be done now to ensure emissions fall fast enough that the target of constraining the rise in global average temperatures below 2C from pre-industrial times can be met?
Netflix's ultimately abandoned foray into the hardware business with its own streaming device has been known for some time -- Wired revealed many of the details in a 2009 article -- but Fast Company has now uncovered some more on the effort that hadn't yet seen the light of day.
In their latest experiment, Dr Sullivan and his colleagues painted the blades of a rotor with both temperature-and pressure-sensing paints, shone laser light on to them, and mapped out the temperatures and pressures as the blades whirred around as fast as 14, 000 rotations per minute.
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