Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time(phys.org)

6 pointsby thunderbongletzten Monat3 comments

Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-zero-index-waveguide-infinitely-wavelengths.html

3 comments

tonyriceletzten Monat

Without reading the context of the article yet, I would assume this means that we've observed another seemingly infinite component of existence ?

Jblx2letzten Monat

I guess that means the universe is infinite in extent?

tonyriceletzten Monat

Functionally that makes sense to me. Something has a property of infinite must mean that it is infinite in nature? What if we can infinitely debate those questions because of infinity?