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Starts With A Bang!
Oct 11, 2023
Attosecond spectroscopy wins 2023’s Nobel Prize in Physics
Our greatest tool for exploring the world…
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Ethan Siegel
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Jul 12, 2023
We use lasers to keep track of the Moon
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Oct 6, 2022
Laser energy will never exceed this ultimate limit
Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Apr 21, 2022
Most distant laser ever found in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away
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Ethan Siegel
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Feb 2, 2019
Ask Ethan: How Can LISA, Without Fixed-Length Arms, Ever Detect Gravitational Waves?
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Ethan Siegel
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Oct 9, 2018
This Is Why The 2018 Nobel Prize In Physics, For Lasers, Is So Important
This year’s prize represents…
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Feb 10, 2018
Ask Ethan: Can A Laser Really Rip Apart Empty Space?
Did you hear the story about how a 100 petawatt…
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May 4, 2016
This laser system foreshadows a new era in ground-based astronomy
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Ethan Siegel
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Mar 1, 2016
Sorry, But Lasers Won’t Get You To Mars In Three Days
It’s a wonderful potential technology for going…
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