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> The possibility of creating a laser through the interaction of light with water waves has not been examined, Carmon said, mainly due to the huge difference be
by Aaron1011 10y ago
> The possibility of creating a laser through the interaction of light with water waves has not been examined, Carmon said, mainly due to the huge difference between the low frequency of water waves on the surface of a liquid (approximately 1,000 oscillations per second) and the high frequency of light wave oscillations (1014 oscillations per second).
I think that's a typo - unless the light actually has a frequency of 1khz, or I misunderstood the article.
- tedsanders 10y ago10^14 is what they were going for. It is indeed a typo.
- rosser 10y agoThey're using the "<sup>" HTML tag for the exponent. It's not a typo; it's crap rendering.
- 0942v8653 10y agoFor whatever reason, their CSS overrides the vertical-align of a large number of elements (possibly all of them?) to "vertical-align: baseline;". Odd, to say the least.
- janzer 10y agoA bad css reset file seems to be the problem. It sets `vertical-align: baseline` on just about everything, including the sub and sup tags. Then never sets sub and sup back to anything reasonable.
- cantrevealname 10y ago> 10^14 The lesson in this: All this incredible markup syntax, rendering engines, and formatting tools, but if you want to be absolutely sure that you data is communicated correctly, better use plaintext.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- Ericson2314 10y agoI'd say the lesson is CSS more delicately, though this is hard to do without better CSS.
- guscost 10y agoDoes unicode count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts#Superscripts_and_subscripts_block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
- teddyh 10y ago10¹⁴