Subsequent investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera...

solar eclipse, a phenomenon that serves as evidence for the curvature of space as predicted by the theory of relativity. Atmospheric optical phenomena include:...

halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk') is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with...

up rod or Rod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up ród, röd, rød, or roð in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rod, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or...

photography, backscatter (also called near-camera reflection) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to the...

in the film industries, have suggested that RODS are visual artifacts. Please see Rod (optical phenomenon) for more information. July 3, 1994 - Roswell...

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...

magnetic field. However, this is a distinct phenomenon and is not classified as "optical activity". Optical activity is reciprocal, i.e. it is the same...

used in recent scientific publications. Common scientific terms for the phenomenon include "visual noise" or "background adaptation". These terms arise due...

reflected. This phenomenon is called total internal reflection and allows for fibre optics technology. As light travels down an optical fibre, it undergoes...

as the magneto-optic Faraday effect (MOFE), is a physical magneto-optical phenomenon. The Faraday effect causes a polarization rotation which is proportional...

An optical microcavity or microresonator is a structure formed by reflecting faces on the two sides of a spacer layer or optical medium, or by wrapping...

witchfire or witch's fire) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire,...

of the phenomenon. The simplest type of birefringence is described as uniaxial, meaning that there is a single direction governing the optical anisotropy...

after the ordinary lightning struck the ground, up to the optical decay of the phenomenon. Additional video was recorded by a high-speed (3000 frames/sec)...

the Earth's atmosphere via the "optical window" region of the electromagnetic spectrum. An example of this phenomenon is when clean air scatters blue...

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word...

The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced /pərˈkɪndʒi/) is the tendency for...

atmospheric optical phenomenon, which appears above and below the observed Sun or Moon, tangent to the 22° halo. To produce these arcs, rod-shaped hexagonal...

extraterrestrial spacecraft. Skeptics assert that the phenomenon was likely to have been another atmospheric phenomenon, such as a sun dog, although the print does...

thermodiffusion, the Soret effect, or the Ludwig–Soret effect) is a phenomenon observed in mixtures of mobile particles where the different particle...

scattered much more than a red color as light propagates through air). The phenomenon is named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John...

Common types of waveguides include acoustic waveguides which direct sound, optical waveguides which direct light, and radio-frequency waveguides which direct...

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum...

There are many types of LC phases, which can be distinguished by their optical properties (such as textures). The contrasting textures arise due to molecules...

continuously in one section but instead is misperceived to be oscillating. This phenomenon was discovered by Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1947. During the 1960s, the concept...

preferred material for making Globar is silicon carbide that is shaped as rods or arches of various sizes. When inserted into a circuit that provides it...

shift to higher energy levels under this radius limit due to discrete optical transitions when semiconductor nanocrystal is restricted by the exciton...

known as the blue field entoptic phenomenon (or Scheerer's phenomenon). Between the ganglion-cell layer and the rods and cones are two layers of neuropils...

Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in...