the scientist who discovered this is MIT’s Gang Chen who was one of the main victims of the FBI’s “China initiative”, the McCarthy-like initiative where they went after scientists of Chinese descent.
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This is incredible
why would the assumption have been that non-infrared light wasn’t imparting energy in the first place?
presumably because the effect is very small and it was assumed that the amount of energy imparted was not sufficient to cause evaporation