Sentence examples for bend of light from inspiring English sources

Gilbert pens large chunks of Dyer's signature work, "Ampersand," and describes other novels like "The Bend of Light" and "Here Live Angry Dogs and Brutal Men".

All are caused by the bending of light rays before they meet the observer's eyes.

In 1672 he discovered the phenomenon of diffraction (the bending of light rays around corners); to explain it, he offered the wave theory of light.

Numerous optical illusions are produced by the refraction (bending) of light as it passes through one substance to another in which the speed of light is significantly different.

The looked-for effect was small, but Eddington and Dyson confirmed that Einstein's prediction of the bending of light was correct.

This in 1918, when Einstein's predictions about the bending of light rays by gravity are about to be confirmed, and Bohr and Planck are already at work.

His theory was swiftly tested when a British expedition claimed to have spotted the predicted bending of light while observing a solar eclipse.

To explain the bending of light rays toward the normal to the surface when light entered the medium, the corpuscular theory demanded that light go faster while the wave theory required that it go slower.

He published a paper in 1809 on his discovery of the polarization of light by reflection and a memoir in 1810 on the theory of double refraction (bending) of light in crystals.

Ordinary transparent media like water, glass and crystal slow light slightly, an effect that causes the bending of light rays that allows lenses to focus images and prisms to produce spectra.

During a solar eclipse, the Sun's disc is covered by the Moon, and Eddington and his colleagues were able to observe the bending of light, which resulted in stars near the Sun appearing out of place.