Sentence examples for liquid mirror from inspiring English sources
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A mirror made from a layer of reflective liquid.
ON THE face of it, a telescope with a liquid mirror sounds about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
In Lin Hwai-Min's "Moon Water," the Taiwanese troupe will flood the stage with water, turning it into a vast liquid mirror filled with shimmering dancing images.
Reprints Related topics Stellar astronomy Science Astronomy Science and technologyCompared with making a rigid mirror, making a liquid mirror is a picnic.
A liquid mirror spins once every few seconds, so provided the liquid is sufficiently viscous to stay put for half a revolution when the mirror is tilted, it will not lose its shape.
The result is a liquid mirror as accurately shaped as a conventional rigid one but at about 1% of the cost.There is more to a telescope than its mirror, of course.
His "Moon Water," inspired by a Buddhist proverb about the elusive nature of reflected images of flowers and the moon, eventually sprawls out across a stage described as looking like a vast liquid mirror, inhabited by drenched dancers in billowing costumes.
Taylor, who has participated in NASA's lunar astronomy plans, says testing liquid mirrors would provide important lessons in materials science and manufacturing techniques for future moon installations.
It provides nearly as high a vacuum as space--meaning no atmospheric distortion of images--but with enough gravity to allow ultrathin liquid mirrors on giant optical telescopes to hold their shape.
But liquid-mirror telescopes (LMTs) were, for a long time, seen as of theoretical interest only.
Use a digital sensor, however, and it is possible to shuffle the image across the sensor in such a way that it is exactly in step with the earth's rotation.One of the leading proponents of the liquid-mirror approach is Ermanno Borra, a physicist at Laval University in Quebec.
Having murdered the king on their wedding night and imprisoned his daughter in a tower, Ravenna preens in front of her liquid-metal mirror, plucks the hearts out of birds (with metal fingernail extensions apparently designed for that purpose) and terrorizes her subjects.
