• The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, is the autobiography of the science fiction author Samuel R. Delany...
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    Samuel R. Delany (category The Bronx High School of Science alumni)
    described his writing in this period, and his marriage to Hacker, in his memoir The Motion of Light in Water. In 1966, while Hacker remained in New York, Delany...
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  • ISBN 0-375-70669-0. The Art of Fiction No. 210, 2011, The Paris Review "What if? Elbow Room's Ray Chong Nee on The Motion of Light in Water", Theatre Works...
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  • Marilyn Hacker (category The Bronx High School of Science alumni)
    commune in 1967; in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water; and her prose and incidents about her appear in his journals, The Journals of Samuel...
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    Jack Gaughan (category Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees)
    of Samuel R. Delany was also used at the cover art for Delany's 1988 autobiography The Motion of Light in Water. Beside his professional work, he was...
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  • ed. by Carl Freedman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, The Motion of Light in Water, by Samuel R. Delany, Arbor House, 1988 James, Kenneth...
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    in 1676 that light does not travel instantaneously by studying the apparent motion of Jupiter's moon Io. Progressively more accurate measurements of its...
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    Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can...
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  • Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed and co-produced by James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick...
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  • Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws...
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    strobe light, is an example of the stroboscopic effect being applied to a cyclic motion that is not rotational. When viewed under normal light, this is...
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    evaluate the potability of water in order to avoid water that is too salty or putrid. Pure water is visibly blue due to absorption of light in the region...
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    motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations in a...
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    the motion of the plate and that increases with the velocity of the plate. We will call this resultant 'radiation friction' in brief." Usually light momentum...
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  • Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military...
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    multiple types of inanimate particles in water. The term "red noise" comes from the "white noise"/"white light" analogy; red noise is strong in longer wavelengths...
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    Dowsing (redirect from Water vein)
    the use of a scientific apparatus. It is also known as divining (especially in water divining), doodlebugging (particularly in the United States, in searching...
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  • Avatar: The Way of Water (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2022 epic science fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water, directed...
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  • chapters in The Motion of Light in Water. The Early Delany Response to a panel given at Madison, Wisconsin, 1981. Tales of Nevèrÿon, by K. Leslie Steiner...
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    claim. Some appear with trails, suggesting motion. Backscatter commonly occurs in low-light scenes when the camera's flash is used. Cases include nighttime...
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  • fundamental force. The motion of light was a long-standing investigation in physics for hundreds of years before the 20th century. The use of aether to describe...
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    observer's direction of motion. The change in angle is of the order of v / c {\displaystyle v/c} where c {\displaystyle c} is the speed of light and v {\displaystyle...
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    scene. Examples of this use include: Blurring water motion (e.g. waterfalls, rivers, oceans). Reducing depth of field in very bright light (e.g. daylight)...
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  • physical quantities (energy, force, torque, light, motion, position, etc.). The process of converting one form of energy to another is known as transduction...
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    Lava lamp (redirect from Liquid motion lamp)
    glass vessel, the remainder of which contains clear or translucent liquid. The vessel is placed on a base containing an incandescent light bulb whose heat...
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    is, frames of reference with no acceleration). The speed of light in vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of the motion of light source or...
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    is immersed in water. As with airsickness, it can be difficult to visually detect motion even if one looks outside the boat since water does not offer...
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  • 47th World Science Fiction Convention (category 1989 in the United States)
    Short Story: "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick Best Non-Fiction Book: The Motion of Light in Water by Samuel R. Delany Best Dramatic Presentation: Who Framed Roger...
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    boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating...
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    meaning 'light-bearing') was the postulated medium for the propagation of light. It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to...
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