{"id":9159,"date":"2011-07-07T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2011-07-07T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:00:47","slug":"kind-of-a-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9159","title":{"rendered":"Kind of a Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/46445\">Rotating cylinder puts a new spin on slow light<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1859 the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau demonstrated this &#8220;photon drag&#8221; in the longitudinal direction by shining light through flowing water. More than 100 years later, in 1976, the British physicist Reginald Jones demonstrated it similarly in the transverse direction, by shining light near the edge of a spinning glass disc. But until now, it seems, no-one has ever shown that an image formed by light can be rotated. The problem is that the atoms are so quick to re-emit absorbed photons that the change in an image&#8217;s rotation is barely perceptible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/photon-drag-image-from-slow-light.html\">Zapperz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotating cylinder puts a new spin on slow light In 1859 the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau demonstrated this &#8220;photon drag&#8221; in the longitudinal direction by shining light through flowing water. More than 100 years later, in 1976, the British physicist &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}