Ya I'm sure that will happen. It's funny because now the deer can take revenge from the grave. Sorry for my gallows humor. The hunting community may get hit hard by this. Lots of white face on FacesOfCovid recently. They all look like republicans.

Well ask him how he's feeling. If he does have a cold ask what symptoms he's had. I don't know if he would be open to take a test if he is sick. If he won't then just stay away for a bit maybe. You could also just warn him about it for future information. A face shield and mask would also probably make gutting the deer a bit less unpleasant. So it's not like there is no benefit to it. I hope no one you know gets sick. I hope this dies out in deer.

COVID isn't blood borne thankfully. I would try to protect myself from those, but I would be more worried about Lyme disease from ticks then COVID. Just wearing a mask and if you really want to take this seriously a face shield to stop splatter from inside the deers lungs. I would say when your first starting to gut it that would be the most hazardous period.

Weird because I still have nerve damage. It's strange how my long covid apparently doesn't exist, but sure ignore it all you want.

I know it's really tragic because it's not even like they have to give up hunting just take some extra precautions.

Did he get sick by chance? Just tell him to wear a mask if he goes again. He doesn't even have to wear it the whole time. Just if he gets close to an injured dear. Please make sure it's an N95 since the blue ones don't stop you from getting sick.

Ya just wear a mask if you bag a deer. You don't want to be the person infected with a new version of this disease. When diseases circulate in animals for a while they tend to get adapted to that animal. So when cross species transmission happens the virus tends to be more dangerous because it's no longer adapted to humans.

I would say wear a mask if you go hunting and take one down. That way any droplet hazard is minimized. I'm sure COVID can't survive being cooked it's not like prion disease.

I would just wear an N95 while there is any sort of aerosol risk. Once the meat is cooked its no big deal, but any droplet hazards when processing the meat should be mitigated. I'm not trying to scare people just be careful.

I'm assuming it was meant as satire in that many papers titles don't outright say why it's important, or they can be difficult to read if you aren't familiar with the terminology.

I wish all papers came impeded with educational material that explains the paper and the concepts in it. You would think they could just find the words that aren't commonly used online, and then include explanations for those words. Even if they are used commonly like the word energy that could be explained as well if many misconceptions exist about it.

One thing you can do is search for the title of the paper and it will bring up articles that describe the results.

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Breakthrough - The world's smallest photon in a dielectric material

MONDAY 24 OCT 22

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Researchers from the NanoPhoton Center at DTU have developed a nanostructure which compresses the light so that it becomes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. This is a fundamental scientific breakthrough and can be important for multiple fields, including energy-efficient computers and quantum technology.

Until recently, it was widely believed among physicists that it was impossible to compress light below the so-called diffraction limit (see fact box), except when using metal nanoparticles, which unfortunately also absorb light. It therefore seemed impossible to compress light strongly in dielectric materials such as silicon, which are key materials in information technologies and come with the important advantage that they do not absorb light. Interestingly, it was shown theoretically already in 2006 that the diffraction limit also does not apply to dielectrics. Still, no one has succeeded in showing this in the real world, simply because it requires such advanced nanotechnology that no one has been able to build the necessary dielectric nanostructures. 

Until now.

A research team from DTU has succeeded in designing and building a structure, a so-called dielectric nanocavity, which concentrates light in a volume that it is 12 times below the diffraction limit – inside a dielectric material. The result is ground-breaking in optical research and has just been published in Nature Communications.

"Although computer calculations show that you can concentrate light in a point that is infinitely small, this only applies in theory. The actual results are limited by how small details can be made, for example, on a microchip," says Marcus Albrechtsen, PhD-student at DTU Electro and first author of the new article. He continues:

“We programmed our knowledge of real photonic nanotechnology and its current limitations into a computer. Then we asked the computer to find a pattern that collects the photons in an unprecedentedly small area in a so-called nanocavity – and which we were also able to build in the laboratory.”

Optical nanocavities are structures that are specially designed to retain light so that it does not propagate as we are used to, but instead is thrown back and forth, in the same way as if you put two mirrors facing each other. The closer you place the mirrors to each other, the more intense the light between the mirrors becomes. For this experiment, the researchers have designed a so-called bowtie structure, which, due to its special shape, is particularly effective at squeezing the photons together.

Interdisciplinary efforts and excellent methods

"It has required a great joint effort to achieve this breakthrough. This has only been possible because we have managed to combine world-leading research from several research groups at DTU"

Associate professor Søren Stobbe, who has led the research work

The nanocavity is made of silicon, which is the dielectric material on which most advanced modern technology is based. The material for the nanocavity was developed in the special cleanroom laboratories at DTU and the patterns on which the cavity is based are optimized and designed using a unique method, so-called topology optimization, which was developed at DTU. It was originally developed to design bridges and aircraft wings but is now also used for nanophotonic structures. (Read more about how topology optimization is used to design an airplane wing).

Important breakthrough for energy-efficient technology

The new discovery could be decisive for the development of revolutionary new technology that can reduce the amount of energy-guzzling components in our data centers, computers, telephones, etc.

The energy consumption for computers and data centers continues to grow, and there is a need for more sustainable chip architectures that use less energy. This can be achieved by replacing the electrical circuits with optical components. The researchers' vision is to use the same division of labor between light and electrons as is used for the Internet, where light is used for communication and electronics for data processing. The only difference is that both functionalities must be built into one and the same chip, and this requires that the light be compressed down to the same sizes as the electronic components. The new breakthrough at DTU shows for the first time that it is possible.

"There is no doubt that this breakthrough is an important step on the way to developing a more energy-efficient technology that can be used in, e.g., nanolasers for optical connections in data centers and future computers – but there is still a long way to go," says Marcus Albrechtsen.

For now, the researchers will work further and refine methods and materials in the search for the optimal solution.

"Now that we have the theory and method in place, we will be able to make increasingly intense photons as the surrounding technology develops. I am convinced that this is just the first of a long series of breakthroughs in physics and photonic nanotechnology centered around these principles," says Søren Stobbe, who recently received the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council of € 2 million for the development of a completely new type of light source based on the new cavities."

https://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/english/nyheder/nyhed?id=440f84cd-3ef4-4879-a091-ea7a8a8a27f5

Really because this actually violated a fundamental principle about how much energy you can fit in a small space?