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    "id": 5685,
    "subject": "Fuligin technology on the way",
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    "first": "2010-08-02T19:54:31+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<4C572277.9040300@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2010-08-02T19:54:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Fuligin technology on the way",
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          "text": "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727720.101-antilaser-traps-all-incoming-light.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news\n\n'Anti-laser' Traps All Incoming Light\"\n\n\"Call it the anti-laser. Instead of amplifying light, it would soak it \nup completely, leaving utter darkness.\"\n[snip]\n\"A paper-thin slice of silicon would normally absorb about 20 per cent \nof the incoming light, but the team showed that in this set-up it would \ncancel nearly all of the light at 945 nanometres, in the near infrared. \nSo far the effect exists only on paper, but team member Douglas Stone \nsays \"ongoing experiments are extremely promising, and I have total \nconfidence it can be realised\". The energy from the cancelled beams is \nconverted into heat, but if it could somehow be turned into current, the \neffect could allow pulses in fibre-optic cables to be converted with \nhigh efficiency into electrical signals.\"\n\nu+16b9"
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