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  • These instruments can detect long-wavelength movements of the ground, as occurs when pulses of fluid and gas move underground.
  • These seismometers are especially sensitive to the long-wavelength ground vibrations that occur as water and gas move through underground cracks.
  • So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves.
  • Space is empty, featuring nothing but a tiny amount of vacuum energy and an occasional long-wavelength particle formed via fluctuations of the quantum fields that suffuse space.
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