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Astronomers were further able to estimate the planet's makeup by calculating its size, based on the amount of light that GJ 1214b blocked when it passed in front of its star, as well as its mass (6.6 times Earth's mass), based on the wobble in the wavelength of starlight caused by GJ 1214b's gravitational pull on its star. That analysis revealed the new planet's density: about one-third of Earth's. Because water has a much lower density than rock, astronomers figured that the "most plausible scenario is a planet made mostly of water, with...
Typical lasers emit one beam of a single, exact wavelength, but a group of researchers have created a new laser that can emit multiple beams of different wavelengths...
...less in common with modern gore movies than with certain avant-garde films of the late '60s, like Michael Snow's Wavelength - a murder mystery in the form of a single, slow, 45-min. zoom shot through a room - and Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame...
...athlete. The girls are also very athletic, but it's different. He's like I was. All he wants to do is go out, find a basketball hoop and shoot at it a hundred hours at a time. There is no question that there is a wavelength that we are both on that nobody else in the house is on. It had not occurred to me to expect that, but I can see it now, and it's a delight...
...created a plausible environment - sterile on the inside, grungy on the lunar surface - that would drive anybody nuts. He guides the film at a tempo that is both measured and assured; here, it's clear, is a director who knows how to get the viewer on his pensive wavelength. Mass-audience action fans may plead for more stuff to happen, but they should attend to the tensions within the silences, in a place where no one can hear Sam scream...