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New insights into what triggers lightning
Cosmic rays interacting with water droplets within thunderclouds could play an important role in initiating lightning strikes. That is the claim of researchers in Russia, who have studied the radio signals emitted during thousands of lightning strikes. The work could provide new insights into how and why lightning occurs in the first place. Although most […]
How To Steer Sound Using Light
July 16, 2012
The ability to create phonons and then steer them using laser beams could lead to a new generation of applications, say physicists Zap an optical fibre with a couple of laser beams and the resulting interference pattern causes an interesting effect–it squeezes the material, an effect known as electrostriction. This creates a compression wave called […]
From Photons to Atoms – The Electromagnetic Nature of Matter
June 16, 2012
Daniele Funaro Motivated by a revision of the classical equations of electromagnetism that allow for the inclusion of solitary waves in the solution space, the material collected in these notes examine the consequences of adopting the modified model in the description of atomic structures. The possibility of handling “photons” in a deterministic way opens indeed […]
Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System’s Origins
May 4, 2012
Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between the ground and the lower ionosphere, about 60 miles up in the atmosphere. This electromagnetic signature, known as Schumann Resonance, had only been observed from Earth’s surface […]
Ohm’s Law Survives to the Atomic Scale
January 7, 2012
B. Weber, S. Mahapatra, H. Ryu, S. Lee, A. Fuhrer, T. C. G. Reusch, D. L. Thompson, W. C. T. Lee, G. Klimeck, L. C. L. Hollenberg, M. Y. Simmons ABSTRACT – sciencemag.org As silicon electronics approaches the atomic scale, interconnects and circuitry become comparable in size to the active device components. Maintaining low electrical […]
Experimental tests of Coulomb’s Law and the photon rest mass
November 27, 2011
Liang-Cheng Tu and Jun Luo Abstract Coulomb’s Law is a fundamental principle describing the electric force between isolated charges, and represents the first quantitative law achieved in electromagnetism. The degree of confidence with which the law is experimentally known to hold was investigated after the law was put forth by Coulomb in 1785. The electrodynamics […]
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