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Prism (optics) A familiar dispersive prism. An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light. At least one surface must be angled — elements with two parallel surfaces are not prisms. The most familiar type of optical prism is the triangular prism, which has a triangular base ...
Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story) " Let There Be Light " is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe. It is the second story in his Future History and was included in the first collection, The Man Who Sold the ...
The Light (short story) The Light is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in March, 1957. The plot concerns the crew of a spaceship from the United States landing on the Moon during a period of intense Cold War tension, and the possibly disastrous consequences of their ...
A compact fluorescent lamp seen through an Amici prism. In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; [ 1] sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular. A medium having this common property may be termed a ...
Asimov's Science Fiction: 1982 Let There Be Light (Clarke short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Playboy: 1957 Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story) Robert A. Heinlein: Super Science Stories: 1940 Let's Go to Golgotha! Garry Kilworth: The Sunday Times: 1957 Life-Line: Robert A. Heinlein: Analog Science Fiction: 1939 Light of Other Days: Bob Shaw ...
Professor Shonku is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Satyajit Ray featuring the fictional scientist-inventor Professor Shonku. The collection was first published in 1965 by Calcutta publisher NewScript Publications. [1] The original collection contained seven stories, while the eight and ninth stories were added in later ...
A Can of Paint is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published in Astounding in 1944. It is a light-hearted look at the first crewed mission to Venus, a "science puzzle" or "problem story" that requires the protagonist to think his way out of a thorny situation.
The Best of Robert Bloch. The Best of Leigh Brackett is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Leigh Brackett, edited by Edmond Hamilton. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in July 1977 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in September of the same year as a volume in its Classic Library of Science ...