Quiz Time!
10 effects you should have heard of, over at Backreaction.
Full disclosure: I don’t recall hearing of #10, and I didn’t know #9 by its “formal” name.
snark: But I have heard of the ending-your-sentence-with-a-preposition effect. (it’s a weakly forbidden phenomenon)
Comments
Comment from gg
Time: March 27, 2008, 9:53 am
Number 9 and 10 were the ones that I hadn’t heard of, but I suspect anyone not in astrophysics or high-energy physics would be in the same boat.
As far as effects that people haven’t heard of, I can add a classical optics effect: correlation-induced spectral changes. Emil Wolf and Daniel James showed in the 1980s that light scattering off of a time-dependent, fluctuating medium can, if the conditions are right, result in Doppler-like shifts in the light’s spectrum.
Comment from ecoli
Time: March 27, 2008, 1:19 pm
I knew 4 of them… not bad for a bio person, I think.
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Comment from 5614
Time: March 27, 2008, 6:19 am
“Hawking effect”, pff, it’s Hawking radiation!
Whilst the name Zeeman rang a bell, I don’t think I had heard that before.
Haven’t heard of 9 or 10.
Still, an interesting list! Can anyone think of any to add? Double slit experi and Cerenkov radiation comes to mind initially. Ah, there seems to be a list in the discussion in the link, including a link to a Wiki page that lists effects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_effects
although that’s hundreds of them, far from a Top 10 list.