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...take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces on the program was evident here in even greater abundance. Their marvellous tone, perfect, balance and phrasing, and rhythmic and technical assurance all gave Professor Piston reason to beam while he bowed with Mr. Lazar at the Serenata's conclusion...
...amount of red light, all of whose waves are in step and all of which move parallel .to the sides of the rod. A few of those waves escape through the silver of one mirror, which is not quite thick enough to be totally opaque, and form the pencil beam of red maser light...
...Mile Beam. The light comes in short bursts a few millionths of a second apart, and they make a flash that lasts less than a thousandth of a second. But the light is incredibly bright and concentrated. When Bell scientists set up the maser at Holmdel, N.J. and pointed its beam to hit the Murray Hill laboratory 25 miles away, the red flashes could be clearly seen with the naked eye, and they registered strongly on photomultiplier tubes. Bell Labs, whose primary interest is in communication, looks forward to perfecting long-reaching maser beams that could carry everything from telephone...
...Since visible light can carry vastly more information than radio waves, a beam of maser light accurately trained on Mars could handle all the communications that would ever be needed by a Mars colony...
...high-power beam concentrated on a satellite might exert enough pressure to nudge it to a new orbit...