In 1942, Moray attempted to rebuild a Radiant Energy device, using the remaining bit of what was known as the "Swedish Stone". This material, which was the heart of his original RE detector, he had never managed to duplicate, and the shortage of this material limited the amount of power which he could draw. Consequently, in the large unit, he developed a second detector that forced him into extensive research involving nuclear materials and radioactive reactions. He became deeply involved in the study of synthetic radioactivity as described by Gustave LeBon in his book "The Evolution of Matter". The years slipped by and Moray spent most of his time working on what he called the "counter-balance" to eliminate the need for an aerial antenna.
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Vikings could have steered by polarized light
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Vikings are said to have been able to navigate with the aid of "sunstones" that allowed them to see the sun on cloudy or foggy days. Now scientists in Hungary and Sweden say the sunstones could have been polarizing crystals.
A polarizing crystal allows only light polarized in one direction to pass through, and it appears dark or light depending on its orientation to the polarized light. Sunlight becomes polarized through the scattering of air molecules in the atmosphere, with the line of polarization at a tangent to concentric circles with the sun at their center. Ramskou postulated that the Vikings could have rotated a polarizing crystal to check the direction of polarization and deduce the position of the sun when it was hidden by fog or was just beneath the horizon.










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