{"id":554,"date":"2010-06-12T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T04:37:22","slug":"light-and-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Light and Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A laser is an interesting instrument. It allows you to study the nature of light and darkness. You can see what makes up a single stream of focused light if you know just how to split it up.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;LASER&#8221; stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Which means that it is essentially a constant stream of photons are\u00c2\u00a0emitted\u00c2\u00a0from a light source. A single beam allows the light to be focused on any point in the room that you desire.<\/p>\n<p>This is what is also used as a pointer in presentations where the slide is reflected on a screen and the speaker needs to pin point a specific part. It can be a fun toy to play with. It can also be a good tool to learn more about the nature of light.<\/p>\n<p>For experiments related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.articlesbase.com\/homeschooling-articles\/simple-laser-experiments-to-share-with-your-kids-340729.html\">use of lasers take a look at this article here<\/a>. There are simple science experiments for you to perform which you will enjoy. And if you have access to a fog machine it will really look awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A laser is an interesting instrument. It allows you to study the nature of light and darkness. You can see what makes up a single stream of focused light if you know just how to split it up. The word &#8220;LASER&#8221; stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Which means that it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,36],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-project","tag-science-experiment","tag-science-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}