The power of light in the palm of your hand with Andrew Forbes
Channel: Science and Cocktails Johannesburg
Date: 2016-06-15

Science & Cocktails Johannesburg
24 November 2015
Speaker:Andrew Forbes

 2015 is the UNESCO International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies. It celebrates many key milestones over the ages, going back a thousand years to the birth of modern optics, through to new discoveries, enabled by light, awarded the 2014 Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry.

What do we mean by "light-based technologies"? What is photonics and how does it touch our everyday lives? What does quantum mechanics have to do with light? How do lenses work and how thin can we make them? If we could make them paper-thin, what applications would that lead to? How will photonic technologies evolve in the future?

In this talk, Andrew Forbes shares with us some of the wonders of light, what we understand about it, what we don’t, how it has impacted on our daily lives, and how light has driven new paradigms in the way we interact with technologies.

As Andrew Forbes will explain, the story of light goes beyond science, touching on art, culture and life itself. 

Funding for the production of this video was provided by the International Year of Light

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