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Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - SEAmapler - 2011-03-02
![[Image: 2u49g3y8htbhw43gb.jpg]](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/2u49g3y8htbhw43gb.jpg)
We all know that light can't exactly pass through solid objects -- unless of course, you're using a laser or something. Yes, X-rays allow us to look into suitcases at the airport and broken bones in our bodies, but there's a new kid on the block that claims to have done the impossible in a novel fashion. Jochen Aulbach and his colleagues of the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics out in Amsterdam have developed a technology that allows scrambled light to remain focused as it passes through ultra-thin layers of paint. You see, when light is sent through opaque material, it becomes muddled and lost in the space-time continuum. Aulbach and his crew used a spatial light modulator, or SMT, to control a 64-femtosecond long laser pulse that's passed through a thin layer of paint. The SMT emits pulses that last long enough for only a machine to see and the data is sent to a computer for calibration. NewScientist claims that with this technology, it might be possible to hone in on cancerous cells and blast them to oblivion without damaging the healthy tissue surrounding them.
Source: Engadget via New Scientist
Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - OB3LISK - 2011-03-02
Forget cancer, I wanna be like superman and get some goggle version of this.
Not sure how that picture fits in with "see through..."
Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - Words - 2011-03-02
OB3LISK Wrote:Not sure how that picture fits in with "see through..."
Yeah, the picture made me think it was a joke, then after reading I still think the pic is a joke.
Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - Link - 2011-03-02
The picture is that way as a depiction of how we believe that light cannot pass through walls, but in this event, light 'broke through' the wall.
Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - Beloved - 2011-03-02
lol I thought the picture was a joke too. I thought it was something like light cant pass through walls right? *breaks wall* now it can.
Technically, that is the point of the picture, but i thought the picture was the answer to the presented topic. o.x
Anyway, thats interesting. If that technology goes through, cancer will become a lesser scare for people who find out [about their cancer].
Scientists figure out how to see through walls, sort of - Devil - 2011-03-02
I heard from a friend they were working on that in Amsterdam, it's really awesome technology!!
