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Gamma-rays are the most energetic form of light, with wavelengths far shorter than ordinary optical light (the light your eye can see), or even ultraviolet or X-ray light.
CNN: Why gamma-ray burst shocked scientists
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For years beams of ordinary visible light were more than precise enough to create the tiny transistors and connectors that make up the guts of a chip.
FORBES: Trick of the Light
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This is because most cosmologists reckon that the Big Bang could not have generated nearly enough ordinary matter--dark or light--to create a closed universe.
ECONOMIST: The dark side of cosmology
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Background: I craft my master plans at a telepathic light speed that shrivels ordinary mortal brains like a salamander in a bouncy chair of hot lava.
FORBES: Talking Tech with Charlie Sheen
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It takes about an hour to collect and aggregate the data ( view a demonstration of a light pulse as it travels through an ordinary Coca-Cola bottle).
CNN: A camera that can see around corners
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In Japan, too, ordinary Japanese have begun to look at South Korea in a new light.
BBC: World Cup's uneasy team-mates
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It transforms only around 0.1% of the infra-red light thrown at it into electricity (compared with 20% for an ordinary solar cell).
ECONOMIST: Monitor
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" Legend slowed the night's upbeat mood, crooning on songs like "Green Light, " "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" and "Ordinary People.
NPR: Will.i.am, Legend Take Part In Young Voters Event
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She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.
NEWYORKER: Amundsen
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But as competition from other financial centers intensified, London let its standards slip, relying on its fabled light-touch regulation and the lure of deep pools of passive money to attract businesses that ordinary British savers should never have been exposed to.
WSJ: London Needs Full Inquest
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In the ad promoting the clean-diesel version of the Audi A3, ordinary citizens are high-handedly arrested for using plastic instead of paper, for possessing old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs and even for not recycling orange rinds.
FORBES: Memo To McCann, Mahoney: Come Up With Better Volt Ads