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Why light in churches looks magical, and its connection with chips
Walk into a church on a clear day, and you can feel the light change. Reds seem to glow from within, yellows land softly on stone, blues deepen the air. It looks like pure artistry, but a lot of that effect comes from something the makers never saw directly: nanoscale structure inside the glass. Himadri Sahoo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Adaptive Quantum Optics group, takes us from coloured church windows to modern photonic chips, showing how old ideas about light are still used in cutting-edge research.
