Might be cool for material sciences, but I want to emphazise this sentence:

Importantly, these vortices don’t carry mass, energy or information, so they don’t violate Einstein’s rules, according to the researchers. “Phase singularities do not carry energy or information and thus can ‘move’ superluminally without breaking causality,”

That phase veolcity and the speed of shadows can be faster than light is long established.

It is quite easy to fill in the details from a smartphone photo after all.

Monty Python apparently. (Although the other comment is funnier)

One of my math professors told us that when he started elementary school they tried starting maths classes with logic and combinatorics, because they were most essential maths and in principle could be experienced by children by seeing, feeling etc. He said it was a stupid approach. I say he turned out a math professor, so maybe it worked.

That’s quite a different thing than being anti-woke, though. It is fair to criticize entertainment media for putting a political message before entertainment (not that I find only shooting and explosions very entertaining, but that is a different matter). It is not like he criticizes left political views themselves. Of course, it is also unreflected of him not to notice politics that persist in his own books, but if I boycott all media with someone involved who voiced an opinion different than my own, I will run out of books and suffocate in a bubble.

How do you test this though? The eye is highly adaptive. If you close one eye, look at something red, then close the other one, your formerly closed eye will already have adapted to the darkness of your eye lid. Depending on how long you do the looking, I can imagine this leading to quite a difference in color perception already.