Not exact matches
moment in the early afternoon, those hours when everything seems to stop under the siege of the sun and surrender to the fierce
peak of its
beaming light.
Now, when the laser
beams rejoin, scientists see interference in the
light's pattern, a jarring mismatch of
peaks and valleys that spill the secrets of gravitational waves — if scientists can read through the static of local noise that can also jiggle the mirrors and mar the signal.
«We sped up the
peak of the correlation between the two
beams,» Glasser says, «but we couldn't push the quantum information any faster than the speed of
light in vacuum.»
Up to now, all plasmonic interferometers have required the use of highly specialized external
light sources that can deliver coherent
light —
beams in which
light waves are parallel, have the same wavelength, and travel in - phase (meaning the
peaks and valleys of the waves are aligned).