First, being rude makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about. Condescension in technology and science is very ‘last century’.
Second, you’re right. This article is a bad translation at best. If the light interacted with the water in any way that produced motion and caused evaporation, that motion IS heat.
They probably mean to say that they can evaporate water directly with light without having to use a heating element or something non-water to absorb the light. That’s my best guess at translating a poorly written article at least.
From the abstract: “We interpret these observations by introducing the hypothesis that photons in the visible spectrum can cleave water clusters off surfaces due to large electrical field gradients and quadrupole force on molecular clusters.”
The commenter’s interpretation of the summary was pretty close to the language Chen used.
To be clear, this article is written by an English native speaker who is summarizing a study written in English primarily by a man who’s been at U.S. universities for three decades. Unless you meant it was a bad summary, which I don’t think it was, but that’s opinion.
No they literally state more water was evaporated than heat energy from the light could do by up to 3 times.
Oh look, another snowflake who reads factual statements as being rude. Fuck off with that shit.
The above said, thank you for being one of the few who actually gets it. There is heat everywhere there is light even if we can’t detect it with equipment. The light exciting the water molecules generates heat, this is a fact that could only be argued with by those who think birds aren’t real and/or that JFK will rise from the dead and bring along Lincoln as his vp.
Insulting others for pointing out your mistakes makes you look like a child. Graceful acceptance of feedback is a sign of maturity.
I realize that it’s a common autistic trait to need to be correct and have little patience for those who don’t understand, but take it from my personal experience, training yourself to not do that will improve your life significantly.