Because the metamaterial is imperfect, the light rays are distorted and interact with each other as they spread.
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This helps "recycle" any light rays which fail to travel the desired path.
The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
In a conventional optical system, light rays enter through a lens and converge at a point to form an image.
As the light rays pass through this odd-shaped lens, they are distorted.
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That makes the precise location of the surface where the image is to be formed much less important, because any particular plane at any given location will receive more or less the same pattern of light rays.
The pions, in turn, will decay rapidly into very high-energy light, or gamma rays.
Meanwhile, the newly real particles decay, giving off (among other things) light, X-rays and gamma rays.
At a time when growth is being questioned, these rays of light do offer a glimpse of hope.
Despite occasional promising rays of light America remains mired in an economic funk.
Because the rims of these craters catch rays of light from the sun, this may provide sufficient illumination for the spectrometer to detect frozen water.
It has now been shown that it is of Iceland spar - a form of calcite known for its property of diffracting light into two separate rays.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
The explosive energy is released in the form of neutrinos, light (mostly gamma-rays), and a pair of relativistically outflowing emitting jets.
It's said the process is similar to how a CT scan functions, but uses visible light instead of X-rays.
Window coatings that block UV rays also give the option of natural light while minimizing its clothing-fading side effects.
Gamma-rays are the most energetic form of light, with wavelengths far shorter than ordinary optical light (the light your eye can see), or even ultraviolet or X-ray light.
To avoid heading into the twilight zone of extreme ultraviolet lithography (or, worse, X-rays), chipmakers need to shrink the light.
Bringing more light than a traditional window that can crack or leak during typhoon season, the bottle bulbs refract the sun's rays to create 55-watts worth of light.
As Darwin had suggested, heat and electricity were added to the mix to mimic the effects of vulcanism and lightning (later experiments also included light of the ultraviolet variety, to represent the powerful rays of the young sun).
The skies are currently being flooded with the brightest display of gamma rays - the Universe's highest-energy light - ever seen by astronomers.
Unlike visible light, which cannot penetrate thick smoke and flames, the IR rays pass through largely unhindered.
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Equipped with computer-controlled blinds, these walls could, depending on temperature and the need for light, insulate the house or fill it with the sun's rays.
That sliding roof is tinted a very light gray-green via new process that blocks almost all damaging sunlight rays and, also, is said to be 10 times harder to bust than tempered glass.
These tools span much of the electromagnetic spectrum from X-rays to ultraviolet to the infrared - and of course microscopy with visible light.
When we talk about telescopes, we're usually referring to devices that "see" the visual spectrum of light, but astronomers also build telescopes that gather radiation like radio waves and X rays in order to peer deep into outer space.
The galactic centre can only be observed at certain wavelengths - such as X-rays - because large amounts of dust lie in our line of sight, blocking out optical light.
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