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Letter: Lumps of light

Published 27 July 2002

From Kurt Thomas

Liquid light does not “glow” (6 July, p 16), in the same way that a ray of light is invisible from the side – barring scattering by dust. Otherwise, it would be gone in a blink.

Bonn

Issue no. 2353 published 27 July 2002

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