It's about (space-)time: Scientists explore new dimension for light

It's about (space-)time: Scientists explore new dimension for light

By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role that the dimension of time plays in physics, researchers from the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have discovered novel flashes of light that come from and go into nothingness—like magic at first glance but with deep mathematical roots that protect against all kinds of outside perturbations. Their findings have now been published in the journal Nature Photonics.

A flash of light that appears out of nowhere and disappears again. What sounds like a physical miracle is a controlled phnomen: scientists have managed to make light appear at a prisen point in space and time. (Continue reading)

A Flash in Time: Scientists Trap Light at a Single Point in Space-Time

In a controlled photonic experiment, light was observed to exist at exactly one point in space and one instant in time. It appeared nowhere before and nowhere after. The state was not the result of pulse shaping, scattering, or noise. It was a topological condition, a phenomenon tied to the structure of the system itself. […] The post A Flash in Time: Scientists Trap Light at a Single Point in Space-Time appeared first on Above The Norm News.

By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role of the time dimension in physics, a new research has made it possible to explore a new dimension of light.

Scientists explore new dimension for light

It's about (space-)time.

By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role that the dimension of time plays in physics, researchers at the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have discovered new flashes of light that come and come into nothingness – such as magic at first sight, but with [...]