rayleigh

Running a Rayleigh statistic shows no evidence for non-uniformity (Rayleigh=0.16, N=13) and the mean phase is close to pi/2 too.

The phenomenon is called Rayleigh fading, and is well known, but I've never seen it mapped as clearly.

The Rayleigh process describes the continous depletion of a reservoir through a fractionationing process - evaporation.

I've been aiming to write a Rayleigh random number generator-driven alarm app for my iTouch (to do random-phasic sleep, e.g., countdown 20+X minutes, X drawn from a Rayleigh(20) distribution).

For what it's worth, near-field scanning optical microscopy has optical resolution beyond the Rayleigh limit.

You mention this towards the end but even just a Rayleigh calc should be enough.

A great story, though it seems a little odd to me since Rayleigh scattering was covered in my undergrad exoplanets course.

Even without dust in the air, you have things like Rayleigh scattering.

Spread-spectrum systems are resistant to Rayleigh fading, because multipath nulls are frequency-specific; the two paths have to be half a wavelength different in length to get cancellation.

(Note: that is even without taking into account different air viscosity, Rayleigh number, at that scale.

(I agree that just going on about Rayleigh scattering is probably overly obtuse: at least not without explaining that scattering is part of how color is formed in the first place.

Rayleigh fading is often viewed statistically, and some article even call it "random".

Rayleigh had some ideas, like some "dust" that is in the atmosphere, etc.

Yes, there is a theoretical limit -- the "Rayleigh criterion".

Most people will say "light scatters"; some might say "Rayleigh scattering".

The resolution of a lens at a given wavelength is determined by its diameter (Rayleigh function).

Rayleigh scattering is elastic (only the direction changes), whereas Raman scattering is inelastic (energy, that is color changes in addition to direction) scattering.

What happens is that the 1/f^2 of the antenna pattern is cancelled by the f^2 (in the long-wavelength regime) of the Rayleigh-Jeans blackbody radiation formula.