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Readers may or may not be aware that about 20 years ago many kids with too much time on their hands found you could make really cool plasmas by nuking halved grapes in a microwave. Seem like a waste of time? Wrong
This has turned into SCIENCE!
One of those kids was physicist, Aaron Slepkov, and he revisited the phenomena and found that the usual explanations were all guesswork and those guesses were wrong. What he did find was a phenomenon that can lead to the focusing of any electromagnetic wave into a point much smaller than it's wavelength - with implications for photolithography that produces the computer chips we use.
Report via Popular Mechanics
Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Grapes Spark in the Microwave
And a video on the same
This has turned into SCIENCE!
One of those kids was physicist, Aaron Slepkov, and he revisited the phenomena and found that the usual explanations were all guesswork and those guesses were wrong. What he did find was a phenomenon that can lead to the focusing of any electromagnetic wave into a point much smaller than it's wavelength - with implications for photolithography that produces the computer chips we use.
Report via Popular Mechanics
Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Grapes Spark in the Microwave
And a video on the same