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Physicists Make a Mobius Strip From Beams of Light
rossgneumann writes: A group of physicists has successfully manipulated beams of laser light into an optical mobius strip (abstract). The shape, a classic mindbender all but nonexistent in nature, has never before been seen in such an immaterial form.
How about "dueling" you illiterate cretins?
Or it didn't happen. That "abstract" is just a theory, I want one in bright, light-sabre light. Even better if it cuts stuff up.
If it truely was 'optical' how come there is no picture? Video would be even better.
Every child has made mobius strips out of paper in kindergarten.
It's not Super Bowl Day yet where I am, and you're not Frist Post either.
Grow up.
And the worms ate into his brain.
To get to the same side.
Bazinga!
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Since when did we stop using the capital M on a proper name? Do we talk about Maxwell's equations or maxwell's? Is it einstein's theory, or Einstein's?
Mostly random stuff.
Who cares?
the rest of us scientists already knew about this.
And we're applying it to horiculture.
Welcome to reality.
That will only work if the strip is a rainbow. Nobody likes a monochrome nyancat.
Cool! Please add ants too! ;)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
..by the fact the author of that first link made an image of a mobius strip where the polarity of the arrows is reversed twice, thereby failing to make a mobius strip while the rotation of the lines about the secondary axis was correct? Aside from the mentally-challenged writing style, that image is extra idiotic.
I am 100% sure the summary paints an one-sided picture of the situation. I am sure there is another side to the story and we need balanced reporting from both sides.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Bulbous-eyed fellow, throat sac a-billow,
sweet voice melodic as the pip-squeaks
of sneakers at an NBA playoff,
what is your secret, your purpose?
I am unable to fathom you by light
scattered as if by Cupid's arrows
that never found the mark.
By photonic lance I have found thee
as in the manner of mine own kind, ever
tossing a mess of things at other things
to see what bounces back.
I am surrounded by light.
Why am I blind??
But perhaps this tuned möbius laser
will do the trick.
By use of this special lens...
we see that the frog is quite handsome...!
Plaid waistcoat and chain fob
handkerchief at the ready, Oxfords and scarf,
setting aside a walking stick of oak,
with a doff of his derby, he stoops and squats
to fertilize a clutch of eggs left by his beloved,
in gentle seminal rain.
All in all, a most proper gentleman.
Now I will set my möbius laser skyward
to illuminate Mars! Where it will resolve the illusion
of dry valleys and magnificent desolation
into a cheerful reality of watery canals,
tall spires of intelligent, unknown purpose,
and one can even see the ripples
spreading outward from the poles and oars
of longboats and trailing garlands of flowers.
I was blind,
but now I see.
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A Klein bottle
Geology - it's not rocket science; it's rock science
The Moebius Strip was at most non-existant in nature until the first child had clumsy fingers when tinkering together a paper bracelet.
Never mind how you twist light into a Mobius strip.
How do you twist light into a regular strip in the first place?
Nobody likes a monochrome nyancat.
That's Tac Nayn.