Pseudogravity That Bends Light Just Like Real Gravity Created by Engineers in a Laboratory - The Debrief
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A team of researchers working with photonic crystals say they have created pseudogravity in the lab that bends light like real gravity.

Researchers studying photonic crystals say they have successfully created a form of pseudogravity that bends light just like real gravity. The new technique could have a dramatic effect on advanced communication technologies like 6G, as well as other applications in optics and materials science that could benefit from a no-contact method of manipulating light.

  • @SalamendaciousOP
    4•1 year ago

    Is it any more egregious than the Higgs boson being called the “god particle?”

        • @money_loo
          6•1 year ago

          Lederman explains in the book why he gave the Higgs boson the nickname “The God Particle”:

          This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one…

          MythBusters: Confirmed. Media of the time did indeed force the name.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle_(book)

          • @SalamendaciousOP
            1•1 year ago

            Yes I read the Wikipedia article too. My point is that colorful, non-scientific language has been used to describe scientific principles.