After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life — and found that laser ...

Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line traversing the ...

T. R. Pagé, A. Safari, R. W. Boyd, J. S. Lundeen In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other ...

Can light itself, perhaps from a laser, cast a shadow? It might seem like a trick, but under certain conditions, the answer to this paradoxical question is “yes.” Researchers have discovered that a ...

A quirk in scientific 3D modeling has led to the discovery that laser light can — under the right circumstances — cast its own shadow ... shining two flashlight beams through each other ...

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow.