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Where did the accident at the nuclear power plant take place a few days after the release of a film describing similar events?

On March 16, 1979, the film China Syndrome, which tells about the accident at a nuclear power plant, was released in the US. Just 12 days later, the real accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which was considered the largest in the history of nuclear energy before the Chernobyl disaster.

In one episode of the film, an operator cuts off the emergency water supply to the core due to a faulty sensor, which almost leads to a meltdown of the station - about the same thing happened on Three Mile Island.

Another character in the film says that such an accident could lead to the evacuation of people from an area the size of Pennsylvania, namely, Three Mile Island is located in Pennsylvania.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is light?

Without light, we would not be able to see the world around us, and nevertheless, we do not know exactly what light is!

We know that light is a form of energy. We can measure its speed and we know its characteristics. We also know that white is not a single color, it is a combination of all colors. It's called "spectrum".

We know that color is not the object itself, but the rays of light that emanate from it. Green paper looks green because it absorbs all other colors except green, which is what our eyes see. Blue glass transmits only blue light, all the rest is absorbed by it.

Sunlight is energy. The heat of the sun's rays, focused by the lens, turns into fire. Light and heat are reflected by white surfaces and absorbed by black ones. That's why white clothes are colder than black ones.

What is the nature of light? The first who tried to seriously study the study of light was Isaac Newton. He believed that light is composed of corpuscles, which are shot like bullets by a light source. But some of the characteristics of light could not be explained by this theory.

Another scientist, Huygens, offered another explanation for the nature of light. He developed the "wave" theory of light. He believed that light creates impulses, or waves, in the same way that a stone thrown into a pond creates waves.

For nearly 150 years, scientists have debated whether light is waves or corpuscles. Most scientists have accepted the wave theory. But then new discoveries followed, which called into question this theory.

What views do scientists hold today on the origin of light? It is now believed that light waves have the characteristic features of both particles and waves at the same time. Experiments are underway to support both theories. So far, there is no answer to the question, what is light.

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