The seemingly invulnerable worlds of television, radio and telephony will be swept away in a tsunami of light-borne data.
In one work, a woman confronts a tsunami in her stylish new outfit made of "light but durable fabrics," as the advertising copy at the top of the painting proclaims.
Enhancing the accident tolerance of light water reactors became a topic of serious discussion following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, resulting tsunami, and subsequent damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex.
The light source used in the FRET experiments was a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser (Tsunami, model 3941, Spectra-Physics) pumped by a 10 W diode laser (Millennia Pro, Spectra-Physics) and delivering ultrafast femtosecond pulses of light with a fundamental frequency of 80 MHz.
In fact, says Mr Bapat, there is little chance of another dangerous tsunami, since no aftershock to the first quake would have the strength to generate one.Crumbs of comfortAmid the wreckage, some sought glimmers of light.
Details of the tsunami model, earthquake fault parameters, and incorporation of data from buoys of Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) are presented in Appendix 2. Fig. 4 Band-pass filtered tide gauge record from Chichijima Island showing observed tsunami waveforms (dark blue) and computed tsunami waveforms (light blue).
The provisions will shed unprecedented light on what Dr. Angell described as a "tsunami" of drug company money, inundating doctors and influencing prescribing habits.
A tsunami of headlines marked the recent claim of neutrinos going faster than light and the more solid discovery of a particle that might be the Higgs boson, responsible for imbuing other particles with mass.
It hopes to begin repairs this summer, just in time to catch a tsunami of federal stimulus money earmarked for such unglamorous tasks as replacing light bulbs and fixing leaky insulation.
At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
