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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [February 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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How Do You Fake Up Wave Fronts?

When you're dealing with waves, it really matters. what the timing of that changed wiggle is. It matters when that wiggle is relative to teof the undulations in the wave,. and so on. The phase, meaning at sort of phase of a wave, is when when the wave goes from being said of a zero up to its maximum value, going back to zero again. If you can do that, as far as your eyes are concerned, you're just seeing light as it would be constructed with those wave fronts. In lazers, what happens is, it's om the word lazer stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

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