http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131220113648.htm
Issue: Oceanic (Global)
Summary:
Scientists are beginning to truly understand rogue waves. In physics, a wave of any medium can become much larger when another wave interferes with it constructively. When this construction occurs, the amplitude of the wave heights build upon each other, resulting in a much larger wave. Through this concept, rogue waves form. However, scientists didn't know until recently that the same process occurs frequently in optic and light waves. Except it's to a completely different degree: while a rogue wave is a wave of twice or more the height of a large wave, these optic waves can hit 10x the size of a normal wave, resulting in incredible flashes of light!
Opinion: If this research can be used in any way to help humans, then we should get to it. As interesting as these facts are, they're just facts until they're used to help people in the real world.
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