The Photoacoustic Effect

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This is great stuff. To me, it's another confirmation that matter is held together with electrical resonance, and not some mysterious mathematical described force. All matter configurations can be cataloged with resonance.

"The discovery of the photoacoustic effect dates back to 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with long-distance sound transmission. Through his invention, called "photophone", he transmitted vocal signals by reflecting sun-light from a moving mirror to a selenium solar cell receiver.[3] As a byproduct of this investigation, he observed that sound waves were produced directly from a solid sample when exposed to beam of sunlight that was rapidly interrupted with a rotating slotted wheel.[4] He noticed that the resulting acoustic signal was dependent on the type of the material and correctly reasoned that the effect was caused by the absorbed light energy, which subsequently heats the sample. Later Bell showed that materials exposed to the non-visible (ultra-violet and infra-red) portions of the solar spectrum can also produce sounds and invented a device, which he called "spectrophone", to apply this effect for spectral identification of materials.[5] Bell himself and later John Tyndall and Wilhelm Röntgen extended these experiments, demonstrating the same effect in liquids and gases.[6][7] However, the results were too crude, dependent on ear detection, and this technique was soon abandoned. The application of the photoacoustic effect had to wait until the development of sensitive sensors and intense light sources. In 1938 Mark Leonidovitch Veingerov revived the interest in the photoacoustic effect, being able to use it in order to measure very small carbon dioxide concentration in nitrogen gas (as low as 0.2% in volume).[8] Since then research and applications grew faster and wider, acquiring several fold more detection sensitivity."

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-photoacoustic-technique-gases-parts-per-quadrillion.html

https://phys.org/news/2008-06-super-sensitive-explosives-detector-distances-exceeding.html

http://www.bioopticsworld.com/artic...nefit-of-photoacoustic-commercialization.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic_effect
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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The mysterious mathematical described fundamental force of electromagnetic energy gives rise to the photoacoustic effect.
 

BillO

Joined Nov 24, 2008
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This is great stuff. To me, it's another confirmation that matter is held together with electrical resonance, and not some mysterious mathematical described force. All matter configurations can be cataloged with resonance.
Ahhh...(wipes face with hand, shakes head, rubs eyes and reaches for another glass of wine ... moves on...)
 
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