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When a nuclear reactor is switched on for the first time, an intense, almost hypnotic blue glow appears in the water surrounding the reactor core. This light is neither fire nor heat; it is Cherenkov radiation, a physical phenomenon that occurs when charged particles, such as high-energy electrons produced...

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When a nuclear reactor powers on for the first time, the core fills with a deep blue glow that feels almost unreal as it rises through the water in a quiet surge of energy. The light is Cherenkov radiation, created when charged particles move through the water faster than light can travel in that medium, a discovery made in the 1930s that revealed a new way to see high energy reactions. Every appearance of this glow is a reminder of how powerful atomic reactions can be, showing a rare moment where raw physics becomes something visible and strangely beautiful.

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Incredible new study at Washington State University found Egyptian Blue emits near‑infrared light 🤯 This is a fragment of ancient Egyptian Blue paint. When researchers hit it with visible light (green, around 530–550 nm), the pigment absorbed it and re‑emitted near‑infrared light at 910–940 nm. Our eyes can’t see NIR, but a modified camera can, so the pigment looks like it’s glowing. Modern NIR‑emitting pigments are used today in anti‑counterfeiting, biomedical imaging, cooling tech, and more. In the hot sun of the Egyptian desert, if a person wore clothing painted in Egyptian Blue, they would stay cooler by radiating some of the absorbed sunlight back out as near‑infrared instead of trapping it as heat.

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A new cosmic eye has opened on the roof of the world. In the Chilean Andes, atop Cerro Chajnantor, the six-meter FYST telescope (pronounced "feast") has been commissioned. The observatory is installed at an altitude of almost 5,600 meters above sea level, higher than Everest Base Camp. Everyone who ascends to the observatory is given an oxygen tank and undergoes a pre-climb medical examination. These sacrifices are no accident. FYST detects submillimeter radiation—wavelengths between infrared light and radio waves. Water vapor in the atmosphere absorbs these waves almost completely, so these signals can only be used in the driest and highest places on the planet. The Atacama Desert is ideal—it's one of the driest places on Earth. Hidden inside is a clever Crossed-Dragone optic: two mirrors are positioned at an angle to each other, without a shared axis. The design eliminates interference and produces a clear image over a wide field. The main instrument is the Prime Cam camera with seven interchangeable detector modules, totaling more than 100,000 superconducting sensors. FYST's sky imaging speed is ten times faster than its predecessors. The project's goals are ambitious. Searching for traces of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background radiation. Mapping galaxy clusters throughout the history of the Universe. Observing the birth of stars within dust clouds. And then there's the Epoch of Reionization—the moment when the young Universe became transparent. Submillimeter light passes through dust, which completely blocks visible light, so FYST will see what conventional telescopes cannot. The structure was assembled in Germany from Invar alloy, which is virtually unaffected by temperature changes. Then everything was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic, and driven almost 500 kilometers along the Andes mountain roads. It took 34 years from the first drawings to the launch.
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Many cpfans think the bouquet in Ziyu's guiyang music festival vlog might be from Tianxuning ✨ Tian Xuning sang “I can” on Hi6,this program was supposed to broadcast on the same day that Ziyu attended the music festival (on that day Ziyu also sang “I can”), which can be seen as a form of their lowkey promotion,Xuning wore a light blue shirt on Hi6, while Ziyu wore a light pink outfit at the music festival,blue and pink are the colors of the "Revenged love" poster, and these flowers were also light blue ✨ Tian Xuning's fansite once said that he likes blue bouquets (all my cp posts are delusions of cfans, don't take these seriously) #TianZiyu #RevengedLove
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Many cpfans think the bouquet in Ziyu's guiyang music festival vlog might be from Tianxuning ✨ Tian Xuning sang “I can” on Hi6,this program was supposed to broadcast on the same day that Ziyu attended the music festival (on that day Ziyu also sang “I can”), which can be seen as a form of their lowkey promotion,Xuning wore a light blue shirt on Hi6, while Ziyu wore a light pink outfit at the music festival,blue and pink are the colors of the "Revenged love" poster, and these flowers were also light blue ✨ Tian Xuning's fansite once said that he likes blue bouquets (all my cp posts are delusions of cfans, don't take these seriously) #TianZiyu #RevengedLove

涂山栗子

213,437 views • 1 year ago

Matching blue light: (The guy who drilled into alleged UAP)...🧐🤔👽👽👽👽👽👽👽 For those of you who are sure this is fake, this is for the other people who are interested. The blue light that turns on behind him matches the exact color of the power drill’s light. There are a few videos where alleged UAPs mimic other objects in some way. This may be fake, it may be real. Maybe this is just the moment in history where evidence is not just seen, photographed, videotaped, but live streamed and engrained into the internet before anyone has a chance to mitigate it.
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Matching blue light: (The guy who drilled into alleged UAP)...🧐🤔👽👽👽👽👽👽👽 For those of you who are sure this is fake, this is for the other people who are interested. The blue light that turns on behind him matches the exact color of the power drill’s light. There are a few videos where alleged UAPs mimic other objects in some way. This may be fake, it may be real. Maybe this is just the moment in history where evidence is not just seen, photographed, videotaped, but live streamed and engrained into the internet before anyone has a chance to mitigate it.

UFO mania

132,193 views • 9 months ago