Tag Archives: scattering
Using disorder to reveal hidden objects
When light, sound or any kind of wave travels through a complex medium like fog, murky water, or biological tissue, it scatters in many directions. Each particle or irregularity in the medium changes the path of the waves, scrambling them … Continue reading
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Tagged fingerprint operator, likelihood index, materials science, scattered light, scattering, speckle, ultrasound
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‘Surface of last screaming’
This has nothing to do with anything in the news. I was reading up about the Big Bang for a blog post when I came across this lucid explanation – so good it’s worth sharing for that reason alone – … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang, cosmology, last scattering surface, phase transition, recombination epoch, scattering, thermal equilibrium
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