Multimedia files - photographs

 


Does the World spin right (or left)?

What have in common Venetian gondola, time arrow and anti-matter? They are all slightly asymmetric.   
            

Spectroscopy, or ghost science
Spectroscopy deal with images: a colorful rainbow, out of a white light

Even with the simplest "spectrometer" - a common CD,
one can distinguish light from incandescent bulb  (which is continous)
from a neon lamp   (in bands) or from sunrise (which is pink)

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Spectroscopy (2)

You can observe light splitting on sky:
in rainbow, at sunset and sunrise (in light scattering)
          
Cadine - Trento      Itea (Greece)          Monenvasia (GR)    Water with milk
but also on shallow water, on snow, in ice, on the beach
         
Sharm-el-Sheik       Folgaria                    Folgaria                   Isola d'Elba

in glass, zirconia, and (someone) in diamonds
           

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Bose-Einstein condensation and birds

What can we learn on fermions and bosons from birds?


         

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Relativity theory

Fast moving objects seem to be shorter

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Fotonic butterflies

Why some butterflies are colorful and other grey?
Their wings show a micropatter, like in "photonic" crystals
     

© GK